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The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
A ADDS TWO TO
NATIONAL STAFF

New York;. Madison Jones,
of New York and Frank Reeves,
of Washington, D. c., have been
added to the staff of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, it was announc
ed. Mr.. Jones is a graduate of
st. John College. Brooklyn, N. Y
and of Columbia University. He
will become national youth direc-
tor for the association November 1.
Mr.. Reeves, a graduate of the
Howard University law school he's
been named research assistant IN
the legal department.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
AZ I IS i,PIIFL4ISSHqER i Robert I. vann Dies

News was received a few
days ago of the death of Mr..
Robert L.. Vann. Publisher of
The Pittsburgh Courier. He
had been i'll for several months
and for a time it was thought.
he would recover, but his illness
proved fatal.
Mr.. Vann began publishing
the Pittsburgh Courier about
% years ago. and built it up
from a small paper of local cir
eulation into one of National
scope and influence.
The outstanding service of
The Courier, perhaps, under
Mr.. Vann's able direction, was
its fight for the Anti-Lynching
Bill, sponsored by the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. Later
he made a memorable fight to
abolish discrimination in the
Military, Naval and Aviation
services of the nation.
The Guide deeply regrets the
loss of such a man who in this
period, sounded a clarion note
for the rights of his race in a
of wavering counsel.
c. C. Galloway,
Acting Editor.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
employment
(BY ATTY. H. J. X

Ninety percent of the Colored
People are workers, and, therefore
their most vital interest is WORK
a market for the labor they have
to sell.
When the New Deal Party came
to power in the Nation, rosy
promises were made about how
"the forgotten man. would be re-
membered there would be work for
all and equal rewards for that
work. Actually there has not
been work at all worthy the name.
In this section of the United
States, for instance, there Is not
one Colored Employee in such
New Deal agencies as the Farm
Credit Bank, the Land Bank. Agr-
icultural agencies Or Home Owners
Loan Corporation, which together
employ thousands of persons. Col
ored workers are employed on re-
lief work, WPA. and the like, but
are denied jobs as foremen, finish
ers and all other skilled work, no
matter how capable they are.
These workers who are thus ig-
nored or kicked around are told to
vote for the New Deal and a con
tinuous kicking.
You have the opportunity to go
back to work at profitable wages,
if you will vote for and help elect
Wendell Willkie. He promises to
give you jobs. HE MEANS TT.
Until he resigned in July 1910, to
u for President on the Republic
an ticket he was President of a
large Electric Company which en-
ployed 1908 workers, of whom
1,08O were Colored, or 8.5 percent
Nearly n hundred of the work
ers of the Negro group were skill
ed workers. These facts should
make you think and act, if think
you can. H. J. P?
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
Peace Mobilization
Group Hits Roose-
welt

Washington, Oct. 90 (ANP) -
Charging the Roosevelt admins
tration with Striking two blows
in a single week" at the liberty
and democracy of the Negro peo-
pie, first by ordering continued
segregation of Negro troops and
second by dropping all p~retense of
attempting to secure passage of
the anti-lynch bill, the American
Peace mobilization calls upon the
entire Negro population to rally 81.
gainst the actions of the Presid-
ent and his draft machinery.
Frederick v. Field, executive
secretary of the Peace mobilizat-
ion, asserted that the administra-
ton is using against the Negro
people, the same tactics II is using
against all progressive Americans
the suppression of liberty in a
drive to get us into war;
He pointed to the White House
statement issued early last week.
which declared the policy of the
war department is not to inter-
mingle colored and white enlisted
personnel in the same regimental
organizations. This policv has
proven satisfactory over a long
period of years. and to make
changes would produce situations
destructive to the morale and de-
trimental to the preparations Tor
national defense"
The same day that the President
was handing down this statement,
Field recalled, the administration
leaders in the senate announced
their intention of abandoning any
further efforts this session. to
get senate approval of the anti
lynch bill, already passed by the
house.
Il have little doubt" Field said,
chat the Negro people will speak
for themselves ON these issues.
The simultaneous announcement of
these two policies reveals more
clearly than words the administra-
tion's attitude toward the extens-
ion of true democracy to Negroes.
And this attitude i'll becomes a gov
eminent that is arming itself to
the teeth for the alleged purpose
Of Saving the world for demoo-
racy."
The mobilization also pointed
out that in appointing the members
of the draft boards in Washington
Negroes who constitute about rs
percent of the population of Wash
ington, were given less than s per
cent representation on the boards.
Field held that President Roose-
welt himself must be personally
responsible" for the selection of
the grossly unrepresentative'
boards, since he personally ap-
points the commissioners who gov
ern this voteless city, and who
themselves first approved the
board appointees.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
mpnt's Creamery Co., and others.
TO
BE HELD FOR
DEPRIEST

Mr.. O. Stanton DePriest
who will speak at Dream
land Hall at 8 p. m. We'd
nesday, October Both will
be entertained by Repub-
lican party leaders at a
banquet at st. Johns A.
M. E. Church at 5 p. m.
Mr.. C. C. Galloway, Director
Colored Division for Nebraska and
Nh. DRY White, End Ward Chair
man are the Republicans sponsor
ing the banquet. The local Color
ed Organization is Cooperating
with Mr.. Galloway and Mr.. White
as are Republicans at Lincoln, Ne
braska.
Tickets for the banquet are Soc
each and may be purchased at
Johnson's Drug Store and Second
Ward Republican Headquarters.
Accommodations are limited to
two hundred. 1t will be necessary
two hundred. 1t will be Necessary
to make your reservations at once.
The date, Wednesday, October
30th at five p. m. The place st.
yohn's AME. Church, 22nd and
Willis Avenue.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
STANTON DEPRIEST TO
SPEAK IN OMAHA OCT. 80

} O. Stanton DePriest, Jr., of Chi,
cago, Illinois, member of the Re-
publican National Speakers Bur-
eau. will deliver the principle adj
dress at Republican Mass Meeting
at Dreamland Hall, oath and
Grant Street, Wednesday, 800 p
m, October Both.
He is considered one of the out
standing Orators of the Country,
The Colored Division of the Rep,
ublican Central Committee should
be commended highly in bringing
speakers of his standing to Oma-
ha. Mr.. DePriest has been study
ing the new deal for many months
from a Colored mans point of
view and has discovered many it.
ems of much interest to the Ne
groes of America. This inform
alton will be given To the Omaha
Public.
Omaha should turn out in Mass
to welcome this National charac-
ter. Those who heard him in 1896
agree that a real treat is in store
for the Citizens of this City.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26

CARNATIONS are eligible. Apple
ants must be between twenty one
and thirty-five. Applications
blanks must be on file by Novem-
Continued on page sY"3)
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
ILL TWO WEEKS
RITES TO BE HELD
FRIDAY
Oscar Adams Becomes
Leader OF Powerful
Secret Order

After an illness of two weeks
Atty. Samuel A. T. Watkins 1886
South Parkway, supreme chanceI-
Tor of Knights of Pythias, died at
Provident hospital Monday after
noon. His death came as a shock
to his many friends who thought
him well on the road to recovery.
Funeral services, which will
draw ~fraternal leaders from all
parts of the country, are to be held
Friday at the Kersey, MCGOWAN
and Morsell parlors. 3515 Indiana
avenue.
In the death of Attorne,, Wat
kins, the task of guiding the Py-
thians will be left to Oscar C.
Adams, Birmingham, Ala, vice
supreme chancellor. MIR. Adams
wired he would be in attendance
at the services.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26
Elected in 1895

Elected head of the Pythians at
the 1885 session in Rochester, N.
Y, Attorney Watkins had no diff
ficulty retaining the post. He was
reelected for the fourth term at
the convention in Detroit.
A well known lawyer, Attorney
Watkins received his education IN
the public schools of Memphis and
at LeMoyne college. He came to
Chicago in 1892 and practiced law
until he was stricken two weeks
ago. Atty. Watkins won fame in
~fraternal circles when he won the
famous Pythian Georgia case,
which gave the lodge the right to
exist in all oSuthern states.
He was also the victor in the
famous Shriners case of Texas.
Both of these cases we're taken to
the United States Supreme court.
Attorney Watkins was well
known in f~raternal circles, being
associated with the Masons and
Elks. He also served as Corpor-
alton Counsel under the late May
or Carter Harrison.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Ada Walker of Memphis; a widow
Mrs. Martell Watkins and a son
Attorney Caldwell Watkins.
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26

In a vigorous campaign for e.
lection as County Judge of Doug
las County, Charles J.. Southland
attacks the record of the present
Count, Judge, Bryce Crawford.
In a radio address of October IA,
Southland says:
"The County Judge, by asking
YOU to re-elect him, makes his Of
fetal record a proper subject for
discussion. The voters should
Continued on page 1879
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COUNTY JUDGES
RECORD ATTACKED

October 21st, 1910
The Omaha Guide,
2418 Grant ST.,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Gentlemen: Herewith reader
which [ trust you can run for
me in whole this week. Thank
Ing you in advance,
Sincerely, Chas. J. Southland
The Omaha guide., 1940-10-26

Colored Republican Leaders
from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and
Colorado will be in Omaha for
this meeting. Come early and
bring your friends, If you desire
seats. Roy White. Chairman
Mems Division; Matte johnson,
Chairman Women's Division; Ray
L. Williams, Master of Ceremon-
les.
Refreshments Served Free to
all who come.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
GERMAN PATROLS
AGAIN REFUSED
Sorties Oh Nazis Termed
Desperate But Futile
In French Report

PARIS. March 2O.-LR-A series
of German patrols, operating "es'
of the Saar river and Vosses
mountains, were reported ny
French military sources today &c
have sustained "%serious losses IN
futile attempts to penetrate French
advance lines.
The Nazi sorties were described
as desperate but beaten oacK IN
every instance.
In the saar river district fight
ing, one German patrol walked in
To a French ambush and the en-
gagement that followed was spirit
ed. Heavy a tomato fire from
French guns inflicted SERIOUS
losses"
In retreating the Nazis withdrew
so hurriedly they abandoned thelr
weapons.
West of the Vosges, the secono
series Of German patrols were re-
pulsed by French advance guards
who not only killed or wounded
many of the enemy but also took
an unspecified number Of prison
ers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Constipation Relief
That Also
Stomach

When constipation brings on acid indi-
gestlon, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated
tongue, SOU taste, and bad breath, your
stomach is probably loaded up with GER
tain undigested food and your bowels don't
move. So you need both Pepsin to help
break up fast that rich undigested food in
your stomach, and Laxative SIENNA to pull
the trigger or those lazy bowels. So be
sure your laxative also contains Pepsin.
Take DR.. Caldwell's Laxative, because it's
Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won
Observation-Disclosures, while the Laxative
SIENNA moves your bowels. Tests prove the
power of Pepsin to dissolve these Jumps of
u%ndlgested protein food which may linger
IN your stomach, to cause belching, gastric
acldlty and nausea. This is how pepsin-
lzlng your stomach helps relieve it of such
distress. At the same time this medicine
wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your
bowels to relieve your constipation. So see
how much better you feel by taking the
laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on
that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin
icky children love to taste this pleasant
lamily laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwen's Lax
ative--Senna with Syruy Pepsin at your
druggist today!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Or New Registration
Required For Coming Primary

registration book and also on the
appropriate primary registration
book in accordance with his party
affiliation.
Independents will not be regis.
tered on any primary book.
In those counties in which a re-
listing Of voters instead of a new
registration shall be ordered, the
chairman of the county board Of
elections, with such assistance a.
may be necessary, will begin or
April End to transcribe to new gen.
eral registration books the names
Of all persons shown by poll books
to have voted in the elections OF
primaries of 1886 and 1888.
A list of all names on the old
registration books, not shown by
the poll books to have voted, will
be published or advertised anG
such as are thus published or adj
vertised will have to appear during
the regular registration period and
show their right to remain regis
tered. After the mi have been
relisted on new registration books,
separate primary registration books
will be made by the county board
chairman.
A new registration must be held
in all precincts where the poll books
I 1896 and 1898 cannot be found.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

stars and executives wish they'd
never gambled. Stories Of big win
nings at the Clover Club and the
race tracks usually get into the COS.
sip columns and often are exagge.
rated. Revenue agents must keep
scrapbooks. Anyway, they never
forget to ask: How about that $22,-
900 you won at Santa Anita last
January 81" Or. you seem to have
forgotten the $9,452 you took from
Sam Goldwyn, Daryl Zanuck and
the boys in that cozy little poker
game on the night of October A."
Snails, because of their ability to
undergo long fasts, are taken along
on safaris by African natives as a
source of fresh food.
METEORS ANNUAL VISITORS
Each year, in the month of May,
a group of meteors flash through
the sky, reminders Of Halley's
comet. These meteors formed a part
Of the train of Halley's comet when
it came near the earth in 1910, and
they were left behind when it NOV.
ed off into space.
PIPES COMPRISE LEGACY
The children Of Borsho Janitch of
Yugoslavia were bequeathed 104
clap pipes, So pipe stems, 20 pipe
lids. 16 lighters, Is tobacco pouches,
Is tongs for lifting coal from the
fire for pipe lighting. and IA pounds
OF tobacco.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Mauretania To Leave
New York At Midniqh1

NEW YORK, March 20.-R-A
medical officer aboard the British
liner Queen Mary said today the
ship was awaiting additional crew
men before sailing, and that the
Mauretania was due to leave at
midnight.
Both ships, wearing war skirts of
grey, have been %provisioned for long
voyages and apparently are ready
for use as troopships.
The officer who asked that he not
be named, said additional men to
man the Queen Mary were en- route
to New York aboard the Lancashire
which sailed from England recently
and stopped at Halifax.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
BY w. A. LUCAS
lairman, State Board of Elections

Chairman, State Board of Elections
One Of the far reaching changes
in the election laws made by the
1899 General Assembly has to do
with setting up a new system OF
registration in primary elections.
Heretofore, only the general cleo
ton registration book has been
used for both primaries and cleo
tons. Under the new law there
will be separate registration books
for primaries and elections.
The voter will be entered on the
primary registration book of the
party Of which he is a member
and hereafter only the primary
registration books will be furnished
the registrars for the primaries.
There will be either a complete
relisting of voters or a new regis
tration in each county in the state,
as may be determined by the coun-
ty board Of elections Of each coun-
ty, at the meeting of such on Sat
urday, March %.
In those counties in which a new
registration is ordered the books
will be open during the usual reg
istration period before the May
primary.
In the new registration the voter
will be registered on the general
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

by not making Paul Harrison
legitimate deductions. Quite a few
rot into trouble and were fined. A
great many like Madge Evans, saw
their claims Whitfield down to a
fraction by the patient but inexor-
able 1870 revenue agents who spend
all their time on income tax cases
hereabout.
Miss Evans made deductions to.
falling $11,777, but a allowed only
81, 1881. The old meanies cut out her
expendit res for travel. for special
fan photographs, nine-tenths of her
automobile expenses, and all of a
$3.50 bill or a tonsillectomy.
Stars Must Prove
Everything They Claim
The difficulty Of knowing what is
allowable, and how to prove it, has
become too much for the cinema
citizens. For example, they can
claim exemptions for having their
hair dyed, but they can't deduct
ordinary beauty treatments as legi-
innate business expenses. M i s S
Evans claims included a SLAB clean
ing bill, which was not allowed. 1t
would have been all right, though,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
EDISON WILL SEEK
N. ]. C0VERN0RSHIP
Secretary OF Navy Agrees
To Permit Filing OF
His Name

WEST ORANGE, N. j., March 20
Up Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison announced today he
would seek the democratic nomina-
ton for governor Of New Jersey.
Edison, in a statement from his
homo here, said that latter weeks
of earnest consideration and with a
full appreciation o. the seriousness
and responsibilities of the step I am
taking, I have decided to permit my
name to go on the petition for nom
nation as governor Of New Jersey
on the democratic ticket"
Many democratic leaders in the
state had urged Edison to seek the
governorship. Mayor Frank Hague
of Jersey City, democratic chief,
said the navy department head
would make a good candidate" Nc
serious opposition was expected to
Edison's bid for the nomination.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
THURSDAY, MARCH ., -.
$500 apiece-and only a fifth O.
these were maritime farms

$500 apiece-and only a fifth of
these were part-time farms.
Farm tenancy has been increas.
ing, DR.. Baker says. Twenty-Five
per cent Of our farmers were ten
ants in 1880; AZ per cent in 1885,
and in some states the percentage
was up to 20.
The bureau of agriculture eco.
Monies asserts, at has become in.
creasingly difficult for tenants t.
become landowners. . We have the
beginnings Of a permanent stratifi-
cation of our farm population"
Hearings Of the temporary ma.
tional economic committee, depart.
ment experts said, showed how good
farm land has passed into owner.
ship Of big investment companies.
The ~ leading life insurance com.
panies today hold 1928, 900, 900 worth
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Roosevelt Is Ordered
Back To Bed By Docto,

WASHINGTON, March 2O-(R-
President Roosevelt's temperature
was up again today and he was or
dered back to bed.
His physician, Rear Admiral Ross
T. Mc1ntire, said, however, he was
the Presidents condition and that
his cold was "just n Of those
things that hangs on"
He said Mr.. Roosevelt's tempera.
ture this morning was 1914 degrees,
nearly a degree above normal and
two-tenths Of a degree higher than
it vas yesterday morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

FINED
FAYETTEVILLE - Two Hender'
son tobacco companies have been
fined by Federal Judge I. M.
Meekins for violating terms of the
fair labor standards act. Both plead
ed guilty.
The Southern Tobacco Company,
Inc, was fined $4,000 on each of II
counts but all except one were
suspended on condition that restitu.
ton be made on all wages due
since October %, 1888. James S.
Cockfield, superintendent of the
company's Wilson plant, was fin.
ed $1,000 and his assistant, Hubert
Carter, was fined $1,000. The COM
pany was charged with failing to
pay the minimum wage, failing to
pay stipulated overtime wages,
keeping false records, failing to
keep records and shipping goods in
interstate commerce in violation of
the act.
The James I. Miller Tobacco COM
pany, charged with handling tobac-
co of the Southern company, was
fined $500.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
ADVERTISEMENT
HAPPY RELIEF
PAINFUL
BACkACHE
ADVERTISEMENT

Many of those ~gnawing, ~nagging, painful
backaches people blame on colds or strains are
often caused BY tired kidneys-and may be
The kidneys are Natures chief way 81 taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out of the
blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints
If the Is miles of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays
in the blood. These poisons may start nagglng
bacKaohes, rheumatic pains. LOS Of pep IND
energy, getting up nights . s%edins; pnfnR Rses
auent or scanty passages with smarting and
burning sometimes shows there is something
wrong with your kidneys Or bladder: ,n,s
Don't waitl Ask your Druggist f for d Doan 20 .
years al They give happy relief and will help the
is miles Of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste from your blood. Get Doanls FILLS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

less farm
One authority, Paul S. Taylor,
professor of economics at the Uni
versity Of California, testified be-
fore the La Toilette committee on
California farm labor troubles. Pro
fessor Taylor held that the plight
Of the "Okies" offers a preview Of
what is beginning to happen in
many other localities.
Until recently, he declares, a
hard-working, thrifty man could
begin as a tenant or hired man.
and wind up a farm owner. But now
"a large number Of persons gainful-
ly employed in agriculture prob
ably not far from one-third-have
more or less fixed labor status as
wage workers or share-croppers."
DR.. o. E. Baker, senior economist
in the bureau of agriculture eco
nomic, remarks that farming is
split into halves-half prosperous,
half poverty-stricken. He adds:
"As tenancy and mortgage debt
have increased, there has been a
tendency to extend the borders of
the country characterized by pow.
erty."
Here are some of the figures DR..
Baker dug out:
In 1929-a prosperous year-half
the farmers in America sold 80 per
cent of the farm produce and the
other half sold II per cent. He esti-
mates the first group could produce
that additional II per cent-so that
half the farms of the nation are
rot needed to feed and clothe the
n%on-farl people,"
More than a quarter Of the ma.
tons farms in 1899 raised less than
$500 in produce. (The average Euro.
pean peasant, says DR.. Baker, does
nearly twice this well.) Nearly
1000, 900 farms produced less than
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

closure of mortgages, 'o'sh to.,
Metropolitan Life, viz.
acres in 1853 farms, j. ls3lN,
t usr 3d. biggest farmer. Noss h, l. Ia,
t per cent of all the land in ,aaa
today owned by the jns,,r ~ Iowa i,
panies. "Eance Com
rea A MONOGRAM 40 prepared in T..
f pores .hat the equity in tE. e
farm lands of the nation NE ne, ;oa
those who are cultivatins ~, red I,
mas dropped from So ns. 'As laa,
1881 to 80 per cent toda,. cent il
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
L. B. Tucker To Head
Frat Housing Committee

RALEIGH, March 2o.-CP-Gov
ernor Hoey appointed a committee
Of three trustees of the University
of North Carolina today to consider
a policy for fraternity housing al
N. C. State college.
I. B. Tucker of Whiteville was
named chairman, with H. P. Grier
Of S~tatesville and ]. T. Pritchett of
Lenoir to serv. with him.
The governor said that President
Frank P. Graham, Dean John W.
Harrison and the N. C. State facui-
ty requested appointment of the
committee.