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- TV 0 I fcf01S I H 31 V1 S - ,, - ----__ VOL. 5, NO. 37 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, July 5, 1951 AMFSs To Hold Connectional Missionary Conv. In Tenn. The Connectional Quadrennial Session of the Woman’s Mission ary Society of the^African-Metho dis Episcopal Church will convene in Memphis, Tenn., July 7-12. The seventeen churches in Mem phis with Bishop J. H. Clayborn, Host Bishop, and Rev. J. E. James, Host Presiding Elder, assisted by Revs. W. M. Wingfield, W. L. ' Powell, and I. T. Jefferson associ ate Presiding Elders are leaders in preparing for the Missionary Conclave that will take to Memphis ten thousand ministers, delegates and law workers from throughout the United States, Africa, South America, Cuba, and the Isles of the Sea. The sessions will be held in Clayborn Temple AME Church, 290 Hernando Street at Pontotoo Avenue; the Rev. J. S. Holley is ( the pastor. This will be a rare treat for Memphis as it will take to Mem phis ministers, laymen representa tives of Missionary work and all of the bishops of this greatest Negro organization of the world. The Delegate Assembly will re present one million and a half communicants, seventeen active Bishops, 12 Departments, 5 Edi tors of periodicals and 12 Colleges and Schools. The Presiding Of ficers in this meeting will be Bishop A. J. Allen, President of the Board of Missions, Rev. L. L. Berry, Secretary; Dr. Anne Heath, President of the Connectional Woman’s Missionary Society; they will be assisted by the seventeen Episcopal District supervisors. Convention Held in Omaha Mrs. W. I. Monroe and Mrs. Melvina Gordon were elected as delegates to represent Mt. Zion Baptist church at the annual Sun day school and B. T. U. Congress Convention of Nebraska, held in Omaha, Nebraska ,at the Mt. Moriah Baptist church on the cor ner of 24th and Ohio streets Others from Lincoln who were able to attend the convention were Mrs. Lenora Letcher, her daugh ter, Miss Wilene Letcher and Miss Barbara Qualls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Qualls. Miss Wilene Letcher rendered a beau tiful solo. Van Simpson was also able to be present at the conven tion. He is the grandson of Mrs. Monroe. Next year the convention will be held at Salem Baptist church on 2741 Decatur street, Omaha. Mrs. Melvin Gordon was elected general secretary for the following year. Attorney Seeks Council Seat LITTLE ROCK. (ANP). Atty. Thad Williams tossed his hat into the city council race here last week, as a candidate from the first ward. He has the support of the Veterans Good Government association, and will opposed in cumbent Aubrey Kerr, white, who is up for re-election. According to Dr. G. P. Freeman, VGGA secretary, the ward has more Negro voters than any other ward in the city. Voters registra tion lists show approximately 2,000 Negroes registered against 3,500 whites. The VGGA is an organization of World war II veterans whose membership is open to both Ne gro and white veterans. ■■■■MW'-' «'■«■■■■■■■ —Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star Mrs. Ruble Shakespeare, wife of the Rev. Melvin L. Shakes peare, will leave tomorrow as a delegate to attend the Connection Quadrennial Session of the Wom an’s Missionary Society of the A.M.E. church, which will con vene in Memphis ,Tenn., July 7. She is a member of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. church. ■v No Color ‘Problem’ with The Yanks in England By William H. Stoneman Lincoln Journal-Chicane Daily News Foreign Service UPPER HEYFORD, England. — Enlightened young officers of the ,U.S.| army and the U.S. air force here in England have been dealing with the “color” problem among their troops. Out here at Upper Heyford, where American engineers are finishing a big new bomber run way. they have dealt with it by suppressing it. There are two kinds of troops at Upper Heyford, U.S. army engineers and U.S. air force personnel who are in charge of running the field. Of the 700 engineering troops 40 are Ne groes. Of the 200 air force men, 25 are Negroes. * * • THE NEGROES are completely “integrated” with white troops. They are no completely Negro units. Colored and white troops sleep side by side in barracks, fre quent the same canteens and work together under the same condi tions. This is the system which is now bound to be introduced through the army, navy and air forces in the long run and it is refreshing to see how well it works on a small scale, when smart officers are in charge. It confirms experience in World! war II and in Korea when colored1 troops have been “integrated” completely. * * * ONE OF THE FIRST things we saw here at Upper Heyford was a very large, very colored tech ser geant marching along beside a group of 64 other men, nine-tenth of who were white. “He’s the straw boss ol the out fit, in charge of a shift on the the concrete mixer,” the colonel explained. “He’s a fine fellow and nobody ever questions his author ity.” Another Negro is head of our personnel section and he’s so ef ficient that wo have put him up for promotion. He gets along well with everybody. “The corporal who bosses the kitchen is also colored. For the lfirst time in history there hasn’t j I been any trouble about kitchen police duty. He’s got things prop jerly organized and everybody likes i him.” “THERE IS SOME TROUBLE between colored men and white men here at the base but it isn’t Iracial trouble. A Negro has the| feeling that he can speak up, just i like anybody else, if he has J trouble. He is ready to defend himself—but he doesn’t go around with a chip on his shoulder. I “If some new man pulls some thing that looks like discrimina tion to a Negro as likely as not ; the tech sergeant will just go up to him and warn him quietly that he is getting out of line. And that’s the end of that. “We just haven’t stood any nonsense, from the very begin ning. We stopped the trouble the second it began. I “One white man went down to the local Pub and told the pro prietor it would be a good idea if he didn’t serve drinks to Ne groes. The thing was reported to us, we put the man on trial, and he was given five months. And that was the end of that.” AN OUTSTANDING INSTANCE of “integration” has been produced by Burton wood, which is the main USAF supply depot in England. The doctor who habitually takes care of all the mumps, measles, chicken pox and other more serious infant, ailments among the offspring of air force personnel who are stationed there is a Ne gro captain. He is universally popular among the officers and wives and is deeply respected. He prefers not to have attention drawn to himself. In the interests of “integration” his requests will be respected. Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star, June 28. Gets Ph.D. at Cornell NASHVILLE.—Henry L. Tay lor, instructor of agricultural edu cation at A. and I. State College, has received his Doctor of Philos phy degree from Cornell Univ ersity. Taylor has been on leave to study at Cornell since 1949. He is a native of Brunswick, Tenn. City Election Interest High Directors of the Lincoln Citi zen’s council met at the chamber of commerce to open a final drive to put over the new charter amendment to be voted on Tues day, July 10. Burnham Yates, president of the council, presided. Members heard Ervin Peterson, representing the Lincoln Home Builders associ ation. He said that several per sons asked why he favored the amendment. “I answered,” he said, “that I was for it in order to put the city council on the spot. Always be fore when you asked the council for something, they replied ‘we have no money.’ If we give them the 2 mill increase they can’t hide behind that old excuse anymore.” Tom Pansing, addressed a group at the Urban League Saturday evening . Interest in the election has raised registration to its highest ■ level since Sept. 7 1947, when the' present election commissioner’s office came into existence. Official count placed the total at 46,642 after the Friday night deadline. Miss Sipuel to Be Honored Aug. 6 Post Office Honors Two L. H. Watson, assistant post master retiring July 1, and Charles Frost, superintendent of mails re tiring Aug. 1, were honored Wed nesday morning by the employees of the custodial department of the Lincoln post office. Mrs. Edna Page and Miss Lor retta R. Martin were in charge of the gathering in the grand jury room of the federal building. Re freshments were served by Mrs. Verta Finley, Mrs. Francis Rob inson, Mrs. Basilia Bell and Mrs. Pauline Ivory. Superintendent of custodial em ployees, G. C. Witter* presented Mr. Watson with a gift, and Miss Martin presented a gift to Mr. Frost. Other honored guests were As-, sistant Postmaster James Cook, newly appointed superintendent of mails, Charles Wyman, fore man of the register department, Leslie Tyrell, newly appointed superintendent of finance, Joe Dallery and Postmaster O. E. Jer ’ ner. i _ Half-Way Mark Reached in i 1951 Campaign I NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Urban League’s 1951 fund drive was re ported recently at $300,000 out of its total goal of $600,000. How ever, the Spring fund campaign goal had been set at $300,000 by June 1st. Campaign leaders honored to day at a luncheon at the Hotel Theresa, 125th Street & Seventh Avenue, New York were: Dr. Channing H. Tobias, director, Phelps-Stokes Fund; Glover Beardsley, president, Harlem Sav ings Bank; Dr. Charles N. Ford, president, United Mutual Life In surance Co.; Robert W. Dowling, president, City Investing Co.; Ed ward F. Boyd, assistant sales manager, Pepsi-Cola Co.; Harry C. Oppenheimer, president, Brand & Oppenheimer; and the Rever end James H. Robinson, pastor, Church of the Master. Speakers) at the luncheon were: Representa tives Adam Clayton Powell, jr. and Jaceb K. Javits, and National: Urban League president, Lloyd K. Garrison. The campaign will resume in, October with another series of breakfasts bringing together busi-i ness and financial leaders to sup-' port the League’s program for better housing, health, welfare, employment and vocational guid ance. Dwight R. G. Palmer, chairman of the board of General Cable Corporation is over-all chairman of the 1951 Urban League Fund campaign. Major gifts announced by the campaign chairman today in cluded $5,000 from the Amalga mated Clothing Workers of America, CIO; $2,500 from the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, AFL; and $1,000 given the League by Senator Her bert H. Lehman in the form of his cash award for meritorious public service from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. By Flossie Thompson CHICKASHA, Okla.—(ANP) — The people of Chickashaa, Okla., a little town of 17,000 persons, still refer to their most famous home town girl as “Ada Lois.” Ada Lois, as you remember, is Miss Ada Lois S’.puel, the young woman who had the courage to challenge successfully the dual educational system of Oklahoma. Because of her stamina and will to fight for her ci/il rights, she now is taking the bar examina tions and is about to be graduated from the School of Law at the University of Oklahoma. Miss Sipuel was graduated from Lincoln high school as vale dictorian of her class in 1941. She attended Langston university where she was graduated with a high scholastic average in 1945. Miss Sipuel gained national at tention in January, 1946, when she applied for admission to the white University of Oklahoma School of law. However, increasing numbers of Negroes and whites realized that the university was a state sup ported school and Miss Sipuel was certainly a citizen of the state. Furthermore, many white veter ans of World War II said that Negroes had fought with them and should be allowed to study with them. I Newspapers wrote editorials I showing why Miss Sipuel should j be admitted to the school. In ! 1948 the New York Herald Tri bune furnished her a round trip ticket to New York. There she appeared on a televised forum at the Waldorf Astoria. At this forum she discussed her efforts to obtain an education in law at her home state. ; Meanwhile, her name blazed across the headline®:' She re 1 ceived letters from all over the world. One letter from Oslo, Norway, invited her to attend the school of law in Norway. Miss Sipuel filed suit In the district court at Norman, Okla. The case was lost. She appealed to the state supreme court. Again she lost. When she car ried her case to the U.S. Supreme court, she won. The court ordered the state to provide equal facilities. As a result of her legal action. Miss Sipuel was admitted to the school of law. The Oklahoma branch of the NAACP has planned an “Ada Lois Sipuel day” on Aug. 6, the date of her graduation. The four lawyers who pleaded her case have been invited. They are Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the NAACP; Robert Ming, assistant to the attorney general in Illinois; James Nabrit, professor of law at Howard university, and Amos T. Hall, Tulsa attorney. Globe Trotters In Panama PANAMA CITY, R. P. (ANP). The Harlem Globtrotters were too much for Panama’s best basket ball teams when the former in vaded this city last Sunday mak ing their debut here in the Na tional gym. They played a game with the Chesterfield nine and later an all star team which accompanied the Trotters through Central and South America. Colon City was expected to see the Trotters in action Tuesday evening in the Colon arena; and the city was agog over the pros pects of having this team pimj in this country.