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T wo Wesleyan Seniors Get Special Honor Two Nebraska Wesleyan Uni versity seniors were graduated •with special honors at 63rd annual commencement exercises. Robert Munkres, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Munkres of Broadwater, graduated with “highest distinc tion,” and Samuel Kenneth Rog ers, son of Mrs. C. D. Rogers of Tampa, Fla., received his degree with “high distinction.” Munkres and Rogers were the only seniors out of the 144 in the class to take honors examinations this year. Robert’s brother James graduated last year with identical honors. Rogers, who majored in political science and philosophy, will entci law school next fall. He has par ticipated in many campus activi ties. He has been president of Blue Key, Pi Gamma Mu and International Relations Club dur ing the past year, active in Cam pus Orientation Group, debate, student publications and YMCA and has been a member of the Student Senate. Munkres, who will also enter graduate school, to prepare for a career in government work, civil service or with some international •gency, has been active in Barbs and Pi Gamma Mu. Each was elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi, national scho lastic honorary, during the year. The society selects its members from the top scholars in each graduating class. Two Cicero Riot Defendants Free CHICAGO—(ANP)—Two de fendants in the Cicero riot case were cleared of charges as the! second week of testimony was concluded last week in the U. S. District court of Judge Walter J. LaBuy. Five defendants still face charges in connection with the anti-Negro riot last summer in the all-white suburban town of Cicero against the moving of a Negro family into an apartment building there. The trial was recessed for the Memorial Day holiday week end. Accused in this case originally were seven Cicero officials and policemen, facing charges on two counts—conspiring to keep the family of Harvey E. Clark Jr., a war veteran and college graduate, from moving into an apartment building at 6139 W. 19th St., and depriving him of his constitutional rights under the 14th amendment by not giving him equal protec tion of the law. Judge LaBuy freed Town Presi dent Henry J. Sandusky and Fire Chief Theodore H. Wesolowski on the grounds that there was no case against them. Still facing trial are Police Chief Erwin Konovsky, Town Atty. Nicholas Berkos, Police Sgt. Roland Brani, and two police of ficers, Frank Janocek and Frank A. Lange. Selassie Birthday Honored by Stamp NEW YORK — (ANP) — The sixtieth birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie will be observed with the issuance of a commem orative stamp, Ethiopian officials announced last week. . I Courtesy Lincoln Journal | R. Munkres S. Rogers Ministers Return From Conference The Rev. R. H. Powell and the Rev. R. G. Nathan have returned from the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church held in St. Louis, Mo., May 27—June 1. The conference was held at Union Memorial Methodist Church with Bishop Edward A. Kelly Jr., in charge. Both Rev. Mr. Powell and Rev. Mr. Nathan were retained at their present charges. W. Rockefeller Is Chairman of Commerce and Industry Council NEW YORK, N. Y.—Twenty-six representatives of management, headed by Winthrop Rockefeller as chairman, have joined forces as members of the Commerce and^ Industry Council of the National Urban League, 1133 Broadway.) The Council is dedicated to the: belief that there should be equal-, ity of opportunity for all Ameri cans, and that there should be full utilization of the vast Negro manpower potential. The Council works to strengthen and extend the industrial rela tions and vocational guidance program of the League, the na tion’s oldest interracial voluntary service agency which strives to promote equal economic oppor tunity for Negroes in all fields of endeavor. Members of the Coun cil actively participate in and support the League’s program and invite their friends and co-work-, ers in industry and commerce to join them in achieving this goal. Long-time member of the board of trustees of the National Urban League, Mr. Rockefeller serves as) chairman of the Council with: Ralph L. Mason, of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), as co-j chairman They comprise the Unemployment Falls DETROIT—(ANP)—With un employment in the Detroit area down to 52,000 the district has) achieved that ideal employment situation known as “balancing! labor market,” according to Mich-j igan Employment Security Com mission (MESC). Max M. Hodton, MESC director, said last week that the 52,000 fig ure represents a mere 4.2 per cent of the total labor force available in the area. The 52,000 figure also repre sents a 45 per cent drop from the 120,000 unemployed reported last December, when congress devoted several days of special hearings to the Detroit labor situation. executive committee witn iwy* Ammidon, of The Hanover Bank; Benjamin F. Vander Poel, of Union Carbide & Carbon Corpo ration; and Joseph R. Bransford, of Western Electric Company. Two of the League’s projects which have attracted widespread attention and in which Council members have been active are “pilot”' placement of qualified Negroes in highly technical, skilled and administrative posi tions, and career conferences held in leading Negro colleges and universities, with Council mem bers serving as or securing con sultants. Career conferences are designed to acquaint students with opportunities in industry and business and the preparations required to qualify them for em ployment. This is achieved by bringing to the conferences rep resentatives of management who advise the students in round-table sessions. Henry W. Pope, of the National Urban League’s industrial rela tions department, serves the Council as field secretary. YW Group Names Officers .am ■MKSBaHIIHHHHK JMFlW .« * • XL. : ' J ' 7 : •'" 1 i Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star Newly elected officers of the Business and Professional Girls League of the YWCA were installed at the dinner meeting. They are (from left) Miss Frances Lewis, president, June Good, secre tary; Frances Bohaty, treasurer and Pat Laymon, vice president. Miss Katherine Weber was the installing officer and music was provided by Miss Ann Bromwell. 37th Spingarn Medal Awarded to The Late Harry T, Moore Would Cut President’s Authority WASHINGTON—(ANP) —The house of representatives last week approved and sent to the White House the controversial bill trans ferring appointment of the Dis trict recorder of deeds from the President to the District Commis sioners. The recorder of deeds proposal taking the $9,300 job away from presidential patronage, originally was sponsored by Sen. Francis Chase, Republican of South Da kota. The bill was introduced after the senate district committee re fused to approve President Tru man’s nominatioii of Earl Wayne Beck, an old Kansas City political associate. This prompted the President to announce that he did not intend to send up another nomination for the post. The bill passed the senate sev eral weeks before the House took action on it. The Recorder of Deeds post has traditionally been filled by a Negro since the days of Frederick Douglass. Mother of Honoree To Accept the Award Dr. Gathings To Represent NMA At AMA Meeting CHICAGO — (ANP) — Dr.' Joseph G. Gathings, president of; the National Medical Association,, last week was selected to repre-( sent his group before the House of ' Delegates of the American Medical j Association at the annual meeting; of the organization here June 9-i 13. Dr. Gathings was selected by a; majority vote after the board of trustiees of the AMA had voted unanimously to request a repre sentative from the NMA. The request for a representative from the NMA came after corres pondence between Dr. William McKinley Thomas of San Fran cisco, Cal., and Dr. John Cline, president of the AMA. The invitation to have a repre sentative of the NMA attend the AMA meeting is considered by many to be a step toward inter ■ gration of Negro doctors into the organization. Other national or ganizations already have opeftec their doors to Negro professionals Among them are the American Nurses Association and the Na tional Conference of Social Work. Commander of Heart-of-Ameriea Council Dies Edgar Anthony Isaacs, Com-^ (mander of the Heart-of-Ameriea Council of the National Council of i | War Veterans in Kansas City Mo., | died recently of a heart ailment. Commander Isaacs had been ill I for some months but not confined. ' He had been planning to attend. | a council affair and was found [dead in his apartment when other comrades called for him. Born in J [Brenham Texas, he had been a [resident of Kansas City for thirty, years and commander of the Heart-of-America Council three years. He is survived by two sisters and other relatives in Texas. Bur-' ial was in Westlawn cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas with full, military honors. He was a vet jeran of World War I. NEW YORK— (ANP) — The J7th Spingarn Medal will be posthumously awarded to the [ate Harry T. Moore, the victim )f a Christmas-night bombing at v*s home in Mims, Fla., Dr. Louis r. Wright, chairman of the 'JAACP board of directors, an nounced last week. Moore was secretary of the Florida NAACP. The Spingarn Medal is awarded mnually by the NAACP to a ^fegro American whose achieve nent is judged the most out standing of the year. The medal will be presented June 27, during the 43rd annual NAACP convention in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Rosa B. Moore, 83, mother of the honoree, will accept the award in his behalf. Moore’s wife also died as a result of in juries received from the bombing. The citation accompanying the raedal to Moore specifically reads: “In the truest sense exemplifies the truth that ‘greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ ” Moore is commended for his courageous fight for greater po litical participation by Negroes in Florida, for the abolitioit of seg Tegaticn at the University of Florida, for justice in the courts, lor equal educational opportu nities for colored children, for the equalization of teachers’ salaries, and “against all the . . . mani festations of racism which flour ished in his home state.” Former recipients of the medal include Mrs. Mabel Keaton Staupers, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Judeg William Hastie, Walter White, Thurgood Marshall, Miss Marian Anderson and Dr. Louis -T. Wright. Although the presentation of • the Spingarn Medal is expected to highlight the convention, an ather event, a forum on segrega tion, will attract much attention. This feature will be sparked by two noted members of the legal staff of the NAACP who will lead discussions. Leading the two half-day ses sions will be Thurgood Marshall, NAACP special counsel, and Dan iel E. Byrd, field secretary for the NAACP Legal Defense and Edu cational Fund, Inc. The morning session will be de voted to disclosing the adverse ef fects of enforced segregation and the afternoon session to methods of effectively combating this segregation. Still another event which should prove interesting will be the dramatization of “Fire in the Flint,” by Walter White. To Hold Revival There will be a revival meeting held at Grace Tabernacle, 18th and Cummings Sts. in Omaha, Nebr., starting Sunday, June 1, at 3:00 p.m. Evangelist H. C. Hall, vvf Chicago will speak. Rev. M. I. Bradford, a former Lincolnite, L* pastor of Grace.