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HONOR GRADUATE—Ernest ine J. Dimitry (W), USN, was recently graduated from Wave recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, j III., with top honors. She was chosen as Honorwave from a company of approximately 150 recruits, and was presented with a letter of commendation signed 1 by Capt. K. L. Nutting, USN, Commanding Officer of the Re cruit Training Command at Great Lakes. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Dimitry of New York City, she is a graduate of Tus kegee Institute and holds a B.S. degree in physical educa tion. (ANP). AKA Sorors Elect Laura Lovelace HOUSTON, Tex. (ANP). Mrs. Laura Lovelace of Cincinnati was elected supreme basileus last week by the Alpha Kappa Alpha soror ity at its annual conclave. Meet ings were held on the campus of Texas State university. Among the ' other officers elected were Carolyn S. Blanton, Louis ville, Ky., su preme gram mateus; Zeno Miss Moten. bia Allen, Los Angeles, supreme epistoleus; Irma S. Clark, Chicago, supreme tamia thus; Lucille M. Scott, Atlanta, editor-in-chief. The Ivy Lead, and Rosetta E. Nolan, Kansas City, Mo., parliamentarian. Principal speaker at the ban quet was Miss Ida L. Scott of Chicago. Miss Etta Moten, famed concert artist, sang at the banquet. Attending the conclave from the Omaha area was Mrs. Robbie Davis, Omaha, Midwestern re gional director. She participated in a panel discussion with six other regions. The conference, under the theme “New Horizons in Human Relations,” attracted 376 members from 35 states. We appreciate the interest which prompted Mrs. W. R. Bartlett, Fort Bayard, New Mexico, to send us these: We’re wise if we but bear in mind, When counting up our treasures, That sharing them does not divide But MULTIPLIES our pleasures. The Builder We are all blind until we see That in the human plan, Nothing is worth the making, if It doesn’t make the man. Why build those cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? In vain we build th^ work, unless The builder also grows. —Edward Markham. DODGER CREW GIMW BLOOD—Five members of the National league champion Brooklyn Dodgers joined New York police and sanitation workers and a city magis trate in giving blood for four year old Linda Pletrafessa at the Brooklyn Center of the Red Cross Blood program last Wednesday. In all nearly 100 persons have given blood for the little girl who needs a pint of blood a day. Shown giving blood are pitcher Hex Barney, foreground, and -fudge Mala. Standing, left to right, are: Norse Frances Perry, first-bafrman Gil Hodges, pitcher Ralph Branca, second-baseman •Jackie Robinson, pitcher Don Newcombe, Captain Bob McAllister, 09th Precinct Police department, Edward Revere and Inspector Hoorn Trupiuno, Sanitation depart ment, (ANP), Mrs. Roosevelt . To Stay On NAACP Board NEW YORK. — Reversing an earlier decision to resign from the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People because of the pressure of her duties at the United Nations, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has consented to com plete her present term as a board member, Roy Wilkins, acting NAACP secretary, has announced. In a letter to Arthur B. Spin garn, NAACP president, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, under date of Dec. 26: “I am very glad to stay on for a year.” Her three-year term expires on Dec. 31, 1950. Mrs. Roosevelt has been a member of the board since 1945. Her decision ton continue her board membership followed re quests that she reconsider, made by Mr. Spingarn, Mr. Wilkins, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Al fred Baker Lewis and other NAACP officers. “We an;, of course, very happy to have the continued interest, counsel and assistance of Mrs. Roosevelt as a board members,” Mr. Spingarn said upon receipt of her letter. “Her contributions to the work of the association have been invaluable and deeply ap preciated by the officers and membership.” American democracy means that every man, regardless of his race, color, or creed, may rise as high as he has ability. If he reaches the heights by following the paths of good will, justice and righte ousness, he will be loved by his fellow-men—not for the race he j represents, but for the man he is. May America never lose this dream and reality of brotherhood. EZZARD CHARLES IN HOLLYWOOD—World Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles seemed in the mood for deep concentra tion recently during his visit with Groaner Bing Crosby on Para mount set of “Mr. Music”. Not so with “der Bing” and Charles’ manager, Jake Mints, for the groaner gave out with the joke and Mintz with the laugh. WTien the sleek heavyweight champion dis closed he had developed a new style of bop on his kingsize base fiddle, the groaner promptly invited him to appear on his nation wide radio show Jan. 15. (ANP). Rk '' sjroups Seek To Block Wherry Sidetrack 3 Kids l)io As Home Flames DES MOINES, la. (ANP). Three tiny tots living in a one room home with their parents were burned to death here last week while their mother stepped out of the house a few minutes to go to the store. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson. The dead chil dren are Larry. 3, Ethel Joan, 21 months, and Blanch Marie, 8 months. The mother, 18, said she went to the store for some groceries leaving the children alone. They were huddled together in bed. When the mother returned the home was a mass of flames. Cause of the fire was not de termined. Emergency Conference To Be Held Jan. 15-17 In Capital WASHINGTON. (ANP). That civil rights will be the big issue before the Congress in the opening days of the second session is generally conceded by political observers and commentators. Dramatizing the issue will be the pres ence here of delegates from more than 20 states attending the National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization, Jan. 15-17. The mobilization, initiated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and sponsored by 50 national church, labor, civic, fraternal and minority group organizations, has focused widespread attention on the impending fight for en actment of FEPC and other civil rights measures. Efforts of Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, republican floor leader, to sidetrack the bill for a Fair Employment Practice Commis sion, replacing it with an anti lynching bill, will be opposed by the sponsors of the mobilization, Roy Wilkins, chairman and act ing NAACP secretary, announced. “The collaborating organizations have agreed upon top priority for FEPC,” Mr. Wilkins said. “Dis crimination in employment af fects more people and more dif ferent groups than does lynching, the poll tax or any other evil for which congressional remedy is now being sought. We will insist upon a showdown fight for FEPC.” Accredited delegates to the mobilization will register at the Twelfth Street Y.M.C.A., 1816 12th St., N. W. The afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 15, will be devoted to briefing delegates on lobbying techniques. That evening a mass meeting will be held. On the fol lowing morning, delegations will visit their respective congress men and senators in an effort to get commitments of support for FEPC and other civil rights measures. Monday night, Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, majority leader, and other congressional leaders will address a mass meeting. Tuesday will be devoted to the followup work of visiting con gressmen and reporting to the conference or^ results of these visits. The conference will also be addressed by leaders of the co-operating organizations and by congressional sponsors of civil rights legislation. $425,000 For Pershing Hotel; Marva To Testify CHICAGO. (ANP). The Persh ing hotel, recent scene of the fatal shooting of a co-owner by a part ner, was sold last week to a local syndicate at an estimated price of $425,000. New owrners are Saul Plast and associates, operators of six other Chicago hotels. Sellers were Dr. Elmer E. Howard and his son, Elmer, jr. Co-owner Charles Cole reportedly had sold his interests in the hotel earlier than last week. Plast announced that he plans to spend $100,000 for improve ments at the hotel. Mrs. Marva Louis, divorced wife of the retired heavyweight cham pion, Joe Louis, will be called to the stand this week in the murder trial of Charles Cole, who is ac cused of murdering his partner, Winston Howard, in the Pershing lounge, Sept. 29. Both were part owners of the Pershing hotel. At a preliminary hearing she denied any connection with the ownership of the building, al though admitting that she and Howard were friends. Southern Publisher Tells Alphas ‘Gradualizers’ Are Not ‘Liberals’ BY WILLIAM A. FOWLKES ATLANTA, Ga. (SNS). Alpha Phi Alpha’s 35th general conven tion entered its third session at Clark college. Principal con vention address for the day was delivered by Attorney Arthur D. Shores, of Birmingham, Ala., who has figured in many prose cution cases involving civil rights in the south. Wednesday night saw the pub lic program at Wheat Street Baptist church, the Rev. W. H. Borders, pastor. In a far reaching address, Au brey Williams, liberal white pub lisher of The Southern Farmers and former head of the NYA, hit those who would compromise or push for a course of gradualism in Negro’s fight for full and com plete citizenship. Williams said there might have been some reason for compromise on the segregation and discrim ination issues twenty or thirty years ago, but that the shell has been cracked, that Negroes are entering the state universities of the South and that student and faculty polls show that their en (Continued on Page 4, Col 2)