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The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
UPSET HOMES LAID
TO FATHER DIVINE

Boston, April 26 -(CNA)-
Wrecked homes and abandoned
children are casting shadows on
the pearly gates of the kingdom Of
Father Divine, two white New
York psychiatrists reported this
week. The report followed less
than "a hours the suicide in New
York of Floyd Schaefner, white
WPA laborer whose wife deserted
him, with their 10-year-old daugh-
ter, to 90 "to live with Cod"
Disclosing a study of a group
of children whose parents had
neglected them to behome IAN
gels" in the Divine kingdoms,
Drs. Lauretta Bender and M. A.
Spalding of New York's Bellevue
Hospital, declared:
"The teachings of the move
ment include a denial of family
ties and responsibility towards
the family. We observe that when
an individual accepts Father Di-
vines teachings, all of the family
relationships of the home are
broken, very often the home it
self"
In the Journal of Nervous and
Mental Disease, the investigators
told of intellectual and emotional
confusion" among offspring of
parents who have diverted their
emotions toward Father Divine
and added:
'"The parents interested in
Father Divine not only neglect
their children ~emotionally but al
so neglect their physical well-be-
ing"
A similar indictment was made
against the cult recently by Judge
Jacob Panken who denounced
Father Divine's edict forbidding
Normal marital relations on the
part of his followers. Panken ac-
cused Father Divine of advocat-
ing race suicide and of breaking
up family life.
Schaefner committed suicide in
his three-room apartment at 527
Throop Avenue, Brooklyn leav-
ing an unaddressed note explain
ing that his wife and daughter
had been converted" by Father
Divine and had "gone to live with
God"
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
JIM CROW TERROR
II IN CCC CAMP

Seattle, April rs (CNA)-Re-
ports of i~ntolerable conditions In
a Jim Crow CCC camp at Yucca
Creek in Northern California
were brought to light by the
Washington Iew-Dealer, organ of
the Washington Commonwealth
Federation, following an interview
with a quartet of boys from Seat
tie who quit the camp after los
ing a strike to better conditions.
In violation of regulation stan
dards, 270 Negro youths at the
camp are forced to work seven
days a week, subsist on a diet of
beans and cabbage while a system
of arbitrary fines isd imposed
against those who protest, it was
reported.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
YOUTH, LABOR, CIVIC
GROUPS BACK THIRD
NATL. NEGRO CONGRESS

Washington. April 25 tCNA)-
Third National Negro Congress, to
be held here April 26 through
April 2S promises to be a rich
cross section of Negro life In
America according to indications
gained from a study of the 100 or
more ORGANIZATIONS which already
have notified the Congress ma
tional office here of the elections
of delegates. Registrations already
have been received from organiza
tons in far off California and
New Mexico, Congress- officials
said. Other states heard from in
clude Arkansas, Alabama, New
York, Pennsylvania, West Vir-
GINA, Ohio Indiana, and Massa-
chusetts.
Youth and college groups regis
tered include the Carver Society
of the City College of New York
Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity. Phi Beta Sigma Fra
ternity. the Southern Negro Youth
Congress. the Council of Young
%Southerners, and the All clubs
of North Carolina.
Church groups include, the Mt.
Olive Baptist Association of New
Mexico, the Interdenominational
Ministers Alliance and the Reli-
gion of Labor Foundation.
Labor groups delegates are the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union (A.F. of L.)) United Mine
Workers of America, State
County Municipal Workers,
United Agricultural and Cannery
| Workers and locals of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers.
More than 1000 delegates from
every section of the country and
from every type of organization
are expected to take part in the
Congress sessions.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
CAPITAL PAPERS HIT
FOR ATTACK ON NEGROES

Washington, April 25 tCNA)-
Six delegates met this Week with
Eugene Meyer, publisher of the
washington Post" and with the
managing editor of the Evening
Star ito protest the appearance
in those papers of advertisements
calculated to stir up race preju-
dice and aiti-Negro feeling in the
nations capital.
The delegation represented the
National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People,
Women's Trade Union League,
Civil Rights Committee, Ministers
Alliance. National Negro Con-
gress, New Negro Alliance, Wash.
ington Housing League and seven
other important organizations.
The Advertisements in question
were signed by Harvey S. Cobb,
attorney for the Press Cafeteria
whose employees, members of the
United Cafeteria Employees I'm
ion No. All. Clio, have been on
strike since March 20. Both ad-
vertisements alleged the union
called the strike it was irked by
the dismissal of a "colored" EN-
ploye who had allegedly laid his
hand on a white" waitress, who
has conveniently cleft the city.
The delegation pointed out that
the manner in which the adver-
tisements were worded was such
as to make the reader feel that
the strike involved a racial issue
rather than a labor dispute, and
as such was inflammatory and
vicious in the extreme. The adver-
tisements were an attack upon
the solidarity Of the Negro and
white workers in the union and
an attempt to stir up racial strife,
As a result of the conference
with the Star, a letter submitted
by the delegation, signed by Ii
prominent observation-disclosures was
published by the Star the follow
ing day, with the statement thai
the Star regrets the undue en-
phasis which the wording of the
advertisement placed upon rac1a'
differences"
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
DEWEY 100 PERCENT
FOR BILL

New York City-During MS
recent speaking tour in Nebraska
and Missouri, Thomas E. Dewey,
candidate for the Republican nom
ination for President made at
least two definite statements sup
porting a Federal anti-lynching
measure. His position in this mat
ter was made clear in a letter TO
the national NAACP last year.
but the two statements in tn e
West were even more pointed.
During an interview in Omaha
when asked about the lynching
measure he declared;
81 believe it should become a
law. I am 100 per cent for it,
Asked the same Question by a
woman reporter in st. Louis, Mr..
Dewey replied without hesitation:
IT am in favor of it, heartily in
favor of it,"
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
BLACK EAGLE OF HARLEM
HEADS FOR FINLAND
TOO LATE

Several weeks too late, the
American Negro aviator, "Colon-
ell" Hubert Julian, self styled
black eagle of New York's Harlem
arrived in Bergen tonight %enroute
to fight for Finland.
An American ambulance unit,
also intended for service with
Finnish armies in the Russo-Fin-
nish war, was on the same ship.
The vessel had been long delayed
in its voyage, officers of the unit
said.
Both the black eagle, who was
rated an lace" when a member of
Halle Selassie's tiny Ethiopian
air force, and the members of the
ambulance unit will proceed to
Finland to aid in reconstruction
work.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
Urban Moods
BY RAYMOND r. o
"a dro p Of ink may make
a million think."-Byron

"A DR. op Of ink may make
a million think."-Byron
1900 Negroes lose their lives
through a fire in a Natchez. Mis-
sissippi, dance Hall. Many more
of the 700 packed in this small
dance place were injured. Most of
them young people Is to II years
of age.'-came blasting from the
radio this morning.
Negro Americans, what a hor-
rible price for pleasure! Every
week throughout America, our
young people seek pleasure under
just such conditions. When |
heard this statement, / wondered
how many were accompanied by
parents or were properly chap
eroned. | wonder how many of
those parents knew where their
children had gone that evening or
had paid any attention to the
fact that the hall was a fire
trap with only one door for an
exit. | wondered if we think
enough about how our children
are growing up.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
AREN'T MUST KNOW
DUTY TO U

In Natchez, in New York, in
Omaha, NEGRO Parents" must
realize their responsibility to our
young people. These questions
might flash in your mind as you
consider u responsibility to
youth: Do | owe youth anything :?
Didn't | have to make my own
way in this world? Won't hard
ships make a man of him? What's
the value of a college education I?
Isn't it the duty of the church,
the school, and social agency to
control youths desire for plea
sure? Don't l give my son or
daughter a place to sleep and
eat? Or, l don't have children,
why shouln l worry? And SO
forth and so on, we could con
tinue with an endless list of ques-
tons which answered, one way OF
another, determine Negro youths
destiny on this earth and which
have a bearing of this question OF
the responsibility of Negro youth
The Natchez disaster is closer tc
Omaha than we realize in a mum
Der of respects.
Our dance halls may be safe
but our young people will be in
danger of fire" from othel
sources if we do not assume oul
full responsibility to them. W.
may not be in anguish because
our children have persisted from
real fire but We will be in anguish
equally as great if they suffer
physical, mental, moral or eeono
mic disaster.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
PHTLA. BAPTIST BACK
A~NTI-LYNCHING BILL

Philadelphia, April 25-tMaude
White for CNA) Baptist Churches
of this city and vicinity recently
observed a special peace and an
ti-lynch" day.
The action was taken following
the unanimous adoption by the
Baptist Ministerial Conference of
a resolution urging all churches,
to send resolutions to Senators
Guffey and Davis requesting them
to vote against a filibuster on the
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
STROUD & BRYANT WIN
PIANO HONORS; AT HIGH
SCHOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL
FLORA PINKSTON PRAISES
STUDENTS CONTEST
RENDITIONS

Sylvester Stroud, South High
High School senior and Arthur
Bryant, won the honors of super
ior in piano at the Nebraska High
School Activities Associations
Twelfth Annual Music Festival
district number two, Fremont, Ne
braska, April 10, 20, asserted
Mrs. Flora Pinkston, music teach
er today.
Winning superior privileges.
Stroud and Bryant to enter the
National Music Contest at Kansas
City, Missouri, May 8, o and II,
The highest rating in this contest
is high superior, says Mrs. Pink.
ston.
Contest judges were: Bernard
F. Nevins, Lincoln, Nebr., direct
or Instrumental music; David 7.
Lawson, of Topeka, Kansas, di-
rector or Music; Rosalind Cook
Ames, Iowa, music department
Iowa State College; Stanford HUI
shizer, Des Moines, Iowa, Drake
University School of Music; Her
bert Schmidt, Lincoln, Nebraska
School of Music; James A. Nell
Choir, Cedar Falls, Iowa orches-
ira and band director.
These boys demonstrated then
Stuff in this contest that anS
musician should have and mus
acquire to succeed, stated th'
teacher.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
THINK OF CHILD
BEFORE BIRTH
[nnter and Ed. Fletcher.

ID To prevent physical disas-
ter besetting Negro youth we
should begin thinking about that
even before they are born so that
they might be given the best pos
sible healthy bodies with which
to begin life free from disease
and physical hanricaps. This
means We must keep our own in
that condition to assure them of
this opportunity.
CD We must study the matter
of child care, proper food and
diet, and health habits OF child
rer.. This does not require a col
lege education. The government
has provided adult education and
parent education classes just for
this PURPOSE. If necessary, we
could organize parent clubs our
selves to study for better child
hood.
We must give serious consider
alton to the matter Of proper
exercise, sunshine and wholesome
recreational opportunities for our
chldrein and ourselves. We have
state parks, city parks, and coun-
try spots provided for this pur-
pose. We have social agencies set
up to provide this service to You
and the young people. Some OF
them might need more adequate
! facilities. That again Is your
responsibility to help them to OBJ.
tain these facilities not criticize
their lack of them. Perhaps your
moral support, maybe even your
financial help, might mean thai
they obtain complete gymnasium
or swimming pool or club rooms
that are so vital to the recreat
ional needs of our youth. In the
meantime, encourage them to be
come Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
Girl Reserves, Brownies, Hi-I
members, etc. Encourage them Il
hike, under proper supervision
to learn to swim, to enjoy anC
learn of nature and the out o
doors. Some of these things WI
can teach them ourselves and no
wait for the social agency to d,
it.
ID We have responsibility Il
our youths physical well being b,
providing them with the prope
clothing and seeing to it that the,
learn the laws of cleanliness ant
form habits of ~neatness.
90 The last phase of physic
al disaster which is so importan
to youth of high school age is
proper understanding of sex edu
CATION This is a black mark Of
American parenthood because /
has been a subject hushed by ia
! CONTINUED on page p
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
Twelve Choirs Will Stage Sixth Annual Spring Musical At Tect
WILLIAMS PRAISES NC VAY
WELCOME 800 CHOIRSTERS

Sixth Annual Goodwill Sprind
Musical will be held at Technical
High School auditorium Sunday
April 2S. 2:45 O'Clock. Hillside
Presbyterian choir is host Accord
ing to Rev. John S. Williams, sona|
festival director. twelve choird
will participate.
WPA Orchestra, Charles Bryant
director, will begin the programl
playing medleys. At the chose of
these music numbers. Three hum
dred persons of the mass choir
will begin the professional. di1
rector Williams said.
Curtains are to be raised at
S:15 o'clock. The joint choirs will
sing the first song, continued the
Hillside church pastor.
Lincoln Choir Entered
Quinn Chapel AME Methodist
Church choir. Lincoln is partici-
pating in the song feast. This is
the first time the capitol city
singers have taken active part in
the music festival, he added.
Mrs. Nelson Honored
Mrs. Flora Sears Nelson one of
the honored music patrons of the
afternoon will speak on Choral
Music" The program will con-
clude with the singing of Great
and Marvellous By Harvey Ganl'
Lauds McVay
Mr. L. L. McVay is the organizer
of this Goodwill festival. Much
credit Is due him for his vision
and hard labor from year to year,
asserted Reverend Williams.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
A. II. HARRIS MOTHER
BURIED AT CHILLICATHE MO.

Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Harris came
home Tuesday from C~hillicathe'
Missouri, where Mr.. Harris moth
err. Mrs. Caroline Ellis, rs was
buried Sunday .2:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Ellis suffered with asthma
several years. She died April IL.
II 80 o'clock stated Mr.. Harris.
Surviving are three sons. Leon
Bruce, Detroit, Michigan; Willie
Bruce. Kansas City, Mo-; and A.
H. Harris, Omaha; two daughters
Miss Marian BRINE. Detroit and
Mrs. Ethel and seventeen grand
children.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
212 DIE
IN DANCE HALL FIRE
IS INJURED
SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH
GETS NEW PASTOR

Rev. A. N. T. Chism, pastor
Second Baptist Church, Redlands'
California. has accepted the pas
torate of Salem Baptist Church.
Omaha, announced Rev. C. c. Pet
ties and w. E. Ford today. The
new pastor is to take charge OF
church services Sunday, April 20.
Public invited, they stated.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
CANADIAN
WAR VIEWS

Clement DuMont, A 3, premedie
from Rock Creek, B. c., Canada,
believes the Allies We're not
caught mapping when Germany
invaded Denmark and Norway.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
INVESTIGATE
FIREBUG RUMORS

Sheriff HYDE jenkins said ru-
mors that the blaze was a fire
bugs work had been investigated
but all evidence so far pointed
to an accidental origin. He added
that somes cases of minor looting
from the bodies of the dead We're
being checked.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27

DuMont, who considers himself
Just as far away from the Canadl-
an army now as two months back
believes the Allies may have bait
ed Germany to fight in preferred
territory.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
DEAD LINE GARAGE FLOORS
AND FUNERAL HOMES

All day thousands of Negroes
tense and dry-eyed, crowded
funeral parlors where the dead
We're laid in rows on garage floors
for Identification.
One by one, relatives of vic
tins, the youngest of whom was
IA, were admitted. They searched
among the dead, screamed, shout
ed "That's him." or There she
is" or That's my Johnny" and
were led weeping away.
Mrs. Ruth Zercher of the Red
Cross anl2unced the expanded
death list late today after it had
stood at 212 for hours. She said
also that rs of the injured were
being cared for by the Red Cross.
Six nurses were sent in from
Greenville, Miss, and Washingtno
Red Cross headquarters authoriz-
ed the Natchez chapter to pay
for funeral for victims whose
families could not meet the ex-
pense.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
anti-lynching bill.

anti-lynching bill.
Resolution in the Conference
was introduced by the Rev Mar
shall Shepherd, pastor of Mt. Oil
vet Baptist Church and former
Democratic state legislator. The
Rev. C. David Foster Is president
of the Conference.
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27

Left to Right, Past Grand Master
Walter L. Seals of Omaha; Bran
In nineteen thirty, members OF
the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
of Nebraska and Jurisdiction
purchased the present building,
26th at Blonde streets, for four
teen THOUSAND dollars. Monday
they burned the mortgage of all
outstanding debts, announced
The Omaha guide., 1940-04-27
FIVE SUSPECTS
ARRESTED

Natchez, Miss. Special Release
Some so per cent of this towns
10000 inhabitants are Negroes
and there was scarcely a Negro
home untouched by loss of rela-
tives Or friends in a fire that
Quilted the RHYTHM Night Club.
julius Wright, Negro, gave this
description of the few deadly sec
onds just after he heard a girl
Cry "Looki"
"I looked but for a second, |
didn't see anything. Then / saw
the moss all .aflame. Women be-
gan to scream. One man jumped
up, pulled down the moss, and
fell against a cardboard petition.
"He Knocked it down and fell
down with it. The flames fell all
over him. I grabbed my wife and
got out to the street."
A white eyewitness called the
hall "the worst fire trap imagin-
able"
when we finally got in,
bodies were lying all over the
floor" he said. You could scare
ly take a step without walking
on one.
"Near the bar there was a pile
of bodies five feet high. Many
were very bloody, indicating des-
perate fighting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-09-26
Legion Auxiliary Appoints
Committee Chairmen.

At the regular meeting of the
Legion Auxiliary on Friday even
ing the following women were APP
pointed by the president for the
coming year: Americanism and CO.
lonial study Mrs. Anne Ambrose;
child welfare, Mrs John Morgan
community service and employ
ment, Mrs. Harry Owens. legislation,
Mrs. r. M. Sherman; finance, Mrs.
Oak Knapp; membership, Mrs. AL
fred Peltier; music, Mrs. Lulo Oh
son, national defense, Mrs. John
Mcclure; publicity and radio, Mrs.
p. v. Morrison; poppy, Mrs. Walter
Gibson, rehabilitation, Mrs. Marie
Mosby; unit activities, Mrs. Jas.
Broderick; historian, Mrs. John Buh-
miller.
Mrs. P. v. Morrison was appoint
ed to head group to investigate
the needs of the CCC camp Ii
brary at Stryker. The annual null
ligan will be served at the CYO
hall on October IL.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-09-26

this week to enroll at the Normal
School at Dillon.
Miss Enid McCracken and Miss
Susie Grippe are leaving Troy on
Saturday for San Francisco, Calf,
where they will be employed.
The Women's Auxiliary to the
Veterans of Foreign Wars are giving
an Old Time Dance at the Moose
Hall ON Saturday. the 18th.
Robert Bennett and Bill Pashas
were injured Monday when the
speeder on which they were riding
left the track near TROOPS cross
ing. Mr.. Pashas had some head
wounds, while Mr.. Bennett sustain
ed a deep cut on the left hand, and
bruises on the left side. Both men
were fortunate in that they were
not more seriously hurt.
Miss Rhea Fewkes left for Mis-
soula on Saturday to enter the Uni
versity of Montana for her senior
year.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-09-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FISHER RIVER

Robert Vining of Whitefish was
a visitor at the Meadows Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. MILFORD Becker of
Libby and Wallace Scott of Troy
spent Sunday visiting and hunting
at the Morris Davis home
Roy Cooper and family spent Sat
urday at the Ernest Davis home.
There were quite few hunters
out Sunday. Not many birds were
taken out of here.
Mrs. Earl Marsh Of Dillon, who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs,
Earl Fowler, at Willow Creek Lodge,
left last week for her home at
Dillon.
NJ |. Davis sent a truck load OF
beef to Libby on Tuesday.
James Morrison, the teacher, was
sick the first of the week. Mrs.
Morrison substituted for him.
MIR. and Mrs. c. w. Gildea were
callers here Monday.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-09-26

David M Wort, So, a native of
Queens county, New Brunswick, and
resident of Montana since 1882,
died at Helena Friday evening after
a long illness.
Three daughters and son sur
vive.
Mr.. Wort had been a teamster in
logging camps near here and near
Helena.
For 50 years he was active in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
being a member of the Thompson
Falls lodge.
Funeral services were conducted
from Lucy's chapel in Missoula at
2:30 o'clock Monday.
Forrest DeRosia was the first in
Libby to receive word of his pass
ing. Mr.. Wort was called dad" by
everyone in this vicinity and lived
in the Fisher River district for a
good many years.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-09-26
REXF0RD

Mrs. Ed Arnold Hostess at Two
Parties
Two parties were given Friday
afternoon and evening by Mrs. Ed
Arnold, honoring her guests, Mr..
and Mrs. E. Goldsmith and Mr.. and
Mrs Cliff Goldsmith of Stroud,
Okla. In the afternoon bridge was
played at two tables. Mrs. Cliff
Goldsmith won high prize, Mrs.
Dewey Martin, second high, and
Miss Madge Melvin received the
consolation prize.
Refreshments were served late in
the afternoon.
AT the evening party there were
three tables of bridge and two of
pinochle in play.
Mrs. E. E. Madden and DR.. C.
Clark were high score winners in
bridge; Mrs. c. Clark and Mr.. VIM.
Griffiths were low.
In pinochle, Mrs. l.. L. Collar and
George Ross were high, and Mrs
George Ross and Grin Farr were
low.
Refreshments were served at the
close of the games.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wellington Brock
entertained rs guests at dinner last
Sunday. The guests included four
of their sons; Arthur of Libby, Roy,
Albert and Guy Of West Kootenai
and their families, and two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Merlin Scott of Eureka
and Mrs. E. Sahnow of Portland.
The family gathering enjoyed the
day visiting and taking pictures.
Mrs. Matt Griffiths and Mrs.
Thomas Wiltshire were Libby call
ers the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Ross of Tooley
Lake were calling on friends here
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Sahnow and
small son, who were guests at the
Wellington Brock home, departed
for their home near Portland the
first of the week.
Les Ward of Chester was a caller
here the fore part of last week.
Mrs. VIM. Deshazer was quite ill
the past week. At this writing she
is much better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Whit
marsh, accompanied by Mr.. Whit
marsh's brotherA Donald, and his
uncle, Art Whitfharsh, drove to
Missoula Saturday. Donald will at
tend the State University and Art
Whitmarsh will consult an eye spe-
cialist in regard to his eyes.
The Mid-Week Card club will
hold it's first meeting of the sea-
son at the home of Mrs. Matt Crit
fiths Wednesday evening, Septem-
Der rs.
Rev. Stuart of Billings held serv-
ices at the school house Sunday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Saxon were
weekend callers in Whitefish.
Miss Winifred Handley left this
week for Missoula where she will
begin her junior year at the State
University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Stevens and
children came from Whitefish to
spend the weekend at the Earl
Rhodes home.