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• Yolnro* *, Number It_ _Lj»coln S. Nebr»A»_Thursday, May 13, 1948 N. U. Students March On Capital, City Hall And Police Station In Protest Over Parking and Police Use of Tear Gas On Friday, May 7, University - of Nebraska students marched the main streets of LAcoln in demonstration against a parking situation on the campus. Fired to righteous indignation when Lin coln Police used tear gas and displayed riot weapons, the stu dents marched on the Police sta tion (above) and city hall amid’ shouts of “We want parking.” J The 3,000 students participating! ended up in the rotunda of the State Capitol while Governor Val Peterson conferred with repre sentatives. ' “The University is aware of the seriousness of the parking problem and is working consciously for its softition,” said Dr. C. W. Borgmann, Dean of the Faculties. Capital Press Clubs to Hear Pea rson, l oun g WASHINGTON. (ANP). Drew Pearson noted columnist and radio commentator, and Thomas Young, president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers association, will be the principal speakers at the annual dinner of the Capital Press Club to be held at Frazier Hall, Ho ward university, Friday, May 7. The Capital Press club, com posed of newsmen and public re lations specialists, was organized in Washington in 1944. Each year since an award has been presented at the annual dinner to the out standing newsman of the year. The honoree is selected by the membership of the organization. Ingrams Appeal To Ga. Supreme Court for Justice AMERICUS, Ga. (ANP). Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram, 40, and her sons, Wallace, 16; and Sammie Lee, 14, have appealed to the Georgia Su preme court against life sentences given them for murder of 66-year old John E. Stratford, white, it was disclosed here last week by Atty. Austin T. Walden of Atlanta. - School Student Wins in Atlanta Newspaper Essay ATLANTA. (ANP). Juel Pate Borders, ninth grade student at David T. Howard high school, last week won a city-wide essay U.L. Glee Club Sings ior Local Music Teachers The twenty-three voices of the U. I* Girls Glee Club led the pro cession of choral groups that made up the mass chorus for the Lincoln Music Teachers Association at St Paul Methodist Church on Sun day evening May 9th. The Glee Club, organized last winter by Mrs. Sara Walker, is under the direction of Mrs. Eugenia S. Brown, university music major. The group has presented programs at several local churches during the season and is the first Negro group to be invited to appear be fore the Teacher’s meeting for many years. The Glee Club contributed two spirituals to the program: “Sit Down Servant”; Vonna Finley, soloist and “My Lord. What a Momin’,” which featured Misses Winifred Winston, Jeanne Malone, Iona Adams and Phyllis Holcomb in quartet Other groups appearing were the Westminster Antiphonal Choir, The Cretonians of Crete, Neb., the Trinity Methodist Jr. Choir and the Union College choir. Bill Robinson President of Actors Guild NEW YORK. (ANP). Bill Rob inson, world famous dancing star, was elected president of the Ne gro Actors guild last week, A new office, president emeritus, was established, and^Noble Sissle was elected for his service to the guild in its early years. Robinson’s old title, honorary president, was eliminated. He was unanimously ' voted active presi dent. • contest sponsored by the Atlanta Journal, local daily. She submitted an essay on “Why I Like My Community High School” to the paper’s an nual Ready Writers’ Essay con test. C. L. Gideons is principal of her high school. She is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Wil liam Holmes Borders. —CBWtftfj l&tcAfc: J.-tomtl. Chicago To Train Police CHICAGO (ANP). Training of policemen in race relations will begin soon, Mayor Martin H. Kenneliy of Chicago announced this week. This answer was given in dis cussion of a recent recommenda tion by the Council against Racial and Religious Discrimination in a report of Negro-white friction in housing. The council advised the “estab lishment of a special human re lations detail and an in-service training program of intergroup relations in the Chicago police department.*’ The mayor said, “I believe the in-service training program is about ready to go into effect*’ Anne Brown to Wed Norwegian Olympic Star OSLO, Norway. (ANP). Anne Brown, well known American singer, will be married here May 11 to Norwegian Olympic star, Thorleif Schjelderup. Miss Brown has been in Norway on concert tour where she has been well re ceived. Her husband-to-be is the son ! of a Norwegian supreme court ; judge. He is a law student. In the St. Moritz Olympic games last winter he placed third in the ski jumping events. Duke Celebrates 49th Birthday NEW YORK. (ANP). Duke El lington, one of the world’s lead ing composers and band leaders, observed his 49th birthday last week with what he calls “a new design.” The new look is on the interior where Dr. George Cahill recently operated on the Duke to remove a kidney cyst. At the Paramount theater where his band is making a personal ap pearance; Duke did not talk about his birthday or his music, he talked about his operation and stay in the hospital. Bishop Sherrill Honored at Civil Rights Meeting ^ GREENWICH, Conn. (ANP). The Greenwich branch of the NAACP last week presented a scroll to Bishop Henry Sherrill for his work as a member of President Truman’s Civil Rights commission. Bishop Sherrill, presiding bish op of the Protestant Episcopal church, told the group that the scroll was not merely a tribute to him but to the work of the whole commission. B*nai BVitli Award Given NEW YORK. (ANP). The man who headed President Truman’s Committee on Civil rights, Charles E. Wilson, president of the Gen eral Electric company, last week received an “America’s Democra tic Legacy” award from the Anti Defamation league of B’nai B’rith. He was cited for his “courage ous leadership” of the civil rights committee at his office. Four, other legacy awards were made at the annual convention of the organization, May 5-7. Those receiving these awards were Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt, Barney Balaban, Darryl Zanuck and Dore Schary. Gov. Earl Warren of California and James Roosevelt spoke at that meeting. Named Supreme Court Laic Clerk WASHINGTON. (ANP). Wil liam T. Coleman of Philadelphia has been appointed law clerk to Justice Frankfurter of the Unitea States Supreme court. This marks the first time a Negro has been appointed law clerk in the- 158 years of existence of the United States Supreme court. Coleman is a graduate ii* law from Harvard university in 1946, and served as law clerk to Cir cuit Judge Herbert F. Goodrich of Philadelphia for the past year. It has been a tradition from the time of Justice Gray that Harvard law school pick the clerks for the justices occupying the New England chair on the high bench. In selecting his aide Justice Frankfurter said he gave the school only two qualifications “professional equipment and char acter.” Coleman, who is 26 years old, is married and has a one year old son. He will receive a salary of around $5,000. He served in the army from 1943 to 1946 and was in training with the all-Negro 477th bomber squadron, designed for Pacific duty when the war ended. Boy Fights To Enter High School WASHINGTON. (ANP). A 14 year-old high school student peti tioned the district court here last week for permission to enter the white Central High school. The youth, Robert A. Whisonant, at tends Dunbar High school. The suit, filed by Carlton Whis onant, the boy’s father, asked the court to rule that school officials had no authority to set up segre gated schools. Members of the board of education, Superintend ent of Schools Hobart M. Corning, and Principal Lawrence Hoover, of Central, are named as defend ants. Young Whisonant points out in his suit that when he graduated from Gamett-Patterson J u n i o r High school last February, he was refused permission to attend Cen tral, the high school most con venient to his home. Mrs. Ola Baker Succumbs Mrs. Ola Baker, 1916 Vine street, succumbed on May 4, 1948, after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Baker was born in White land, Kansas May 18, 1896 but for many years has made her home in Lincoln. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Willis Baker and four children: Willis Jr., Omaha; Lewis, Chicago, Mrs. Willard Shepard of Chicago, and Mrs. John Ward of Omaha; and one sister, Mrs. Raymond Smith of Se dalia, Mo.; three brothers, Hobert and Vernon Layer of Lincoln and Homer Layer of Omaha. Also Mrs. Ola Green of Kansas. Visit A.M.E. General Conference Rev. and JR^rs. Melvin 'Shakespeare left May 4 to attend the 33rd General Conference of the A.M.E. Church convening in Kansas City, Kansas. Rev. Shakespeare pastors a congregation at Hastings, Nebraska. Mrs. Shakespeare is a delegate from this district, and one of a very few women elected to such an office by the electoral colleges. More than 15,000 clergymen and laymen make up the conclave.