f *+■****'* r^TT-r »■,. »'»- «■ rT'T - >■■>■» t -r y-r-r ^ : SOCIAL BRIEFS Mrs. Virgie Nevins of Council Bluffs, la., spent a week recently with her daughter and son-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Botts. Rev and Mrs. L. S. Goolsby will be in attendance at the First Inspirational Meeting of the Mis sionary to be held in Omaha on Friday. Mrs. Ida Mae Blythwood of Omaha is supervisor of the Omaha Area. Miss Katherine Thompson, Group Work Supervisor of the Lincoln Urban League, has re turned home after laying her father, Mr. Charles Thompson to • rest at Norborne, Missouri. Mr. Porter Williams of Chicago, 111., brother of Mrs. Charles Boyd is in the city anticipating making it his home. Fletcher Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bell, is attending Jefferson High in Los Angeles, Calif. He writes that fie has been awarded a letter in basketball and football and that he has acquired the name of “Ringbell” because the bell rings each times he makes a basket. Mrs. America Marshall is re cuperating at home after under going an operation at Lincoln ^ General Hospital. A Christmas Party will be ob* served at the Urban League on Thursday of next week by the Mary Bethune Literary and Art Club. Rev. and Mrs. B. T. McDaniels will leave this week end for their Church Conference. Mr. B. Conway has been in disposed for several days. He is somewhat improved. , Mr. Nimrod Ross, who has been seriously ill is reported improved. Returning from Baton Rouge, La., recently was Mrs. A. E. Simms, who spent several weeks ^ with her daughter and son-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Obbie Brown. Attending a skating party in York, last Friday, were Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Botts, Walter Bell, Melvin Tarpley and George Alex ander. Rev. and Mrs. Trago Me Wil liams Sr., are now at home to their friends at 2015 U Street. The McWilliams have been liv ing in Omaha for the past four years. Dinner guest of Mrs. Wm. Bryon Davis, Sunday December 8 were the Rev. and Mrs. John Favors. Amaranth Chapter No. 3, O. E. 5., will hold its installation at a regular meeting, January 7. It •will not be opened to the public. Mr. Dan V. Snedecor, student at Nebraska University, was de lighted with the arrival of his wife last Saturday. Mrs. Snede cor will remain indefinitely. Mr. Albert Walker arrived Thursday, from Flint, Michigan. He will spend about two weeks with his family. -o Mrs. T. R. Clair is a recent gra duate of the Althouse School of cosmetology of Omaha, Nebr., and will open a Beauty Shop in her home at 2050 S St. Mrs. Clair is the wife of Mr. Roosevelt Clair, who operates the Roosevelt Gar den. Mrs. Clair is a member of the Church of God In Christ of which Rev. B. T. McDaniels is the pastor. She possess a contral to voice and is afiliated with the choir. The Clairs came here three years ago from Bonner Springs, Kansas and have been a great asset to our city. Mr. Clair oper ated the first Negro taxi cab in the city. -n I To File FEPC Petitions (Continued from page 1) The union’s FEPC officials bas ed the CIO’s growth on Sylvis’ 79-year-old black-white labor creed, hit the Red-baiting propa ganda as an instrument to bust the labor movement, and urged “pasage of an FEPC law like the laws passed by New York, Mas sachusetts and other states” as a “blow against this hate propagan da.” Labor’s worst error was com mitted immediately after the Civil war when propaganda from the copperhead press influenced un ions to deny membership to Neg ro workers, said Kasper and Mc Ghee. Fear was created within labor ranks that these new mem bers would lower working stand ards. Copperhead press propa ganda created the same type of fear that “lead to the discrimina tion against immigrants from Ire land, Russia, Poland, Italy, Aus tro-Hungary, Mexico and Asia.” Catholics were reminded that a few years ago they were the minority singled out for persecu tion like the small number of communists today and that the Red-baiting Palmer raids cost the American labor movement more than two million members between 1920 and 1932. “We must all realize that dis crimination and prejudice are a deadly poison,” the labor leaders stressed. “Fascism can be up rated from American soil if we all work to stamp out discrimination wherever it rears its head.” The Sports Front With Smoky By Howard “Smoky” Molden Citizens Ask Owners to Drop Ban Against Negro Baseball Players LOS ANGELES— (ANP)— A citizens delegation demanded an end to the unwritten ban on Neg ro players in the Pacific Coast Baseball league Thursday during a meeting of the league’s team owners at the Hotel Biltmore here. The sensational success of five Negro players signed last year by the Brooklyn Dodgers was cited as ground for their request. Jack ie Robinson, one of the players signed by Brooklyn, not only won the International league batting title this year but led Montreal Royals to the pennant and Little World championship as well as accounting for breaking all pre vious baseball attendance records at Montreal. “We have asked Mr. Clarence Rowland, president of the Coast league, to place the subject of Negro players on the agenda,” said Miss Helen Samuels, execu tive secretary of the National Negro congress. Beside Miss Samuels, the base ball delegation included Mrs. Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle; Assemblyman Gus Hawkins, Don Wheedin, of the United Negro and Allied Vet erans of America; Betty McCand less, of the Los Angeles Youth council; the Rev. J. J. Hicks, Yvonne Shepard, of the American Youth for Democracy and a num ber of trade union representa tives. Reference was made to the signing of Kenny Washington and Woody Strode by the Los Angeles pro football Rams and to the great popularity of Negroes in sports on the west coast. The Urban League Cagers got into full swing last Thursday as the Leaguers defeated Borgens in the Class C of the city league 15-9. Edwin Delaney sparked the leaguers by pouring in six points to take scoring honors for the evening. Since the league has been changed, the Leaguers now find themselves in Class B, thus bringing them back to the hard wood on Monday, this time Have lock was the peep sights of the League Cagers, and by a very close and uncomfortable score in the dying seconds were able to edge Havelock 18 to 17. Roland Delaney paced the league for scoring honors. Yale’s great Negro backfield Star, Levi Jackson was awarded the George Bulger Lowe trophy for his outstanding grid play throughout this season. This tro phy is awarded by the famous Gridders Club of Boston. 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