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: 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.
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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.
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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. It is
given annually for the outstand
ing football players in New Eng
land. Those of who who have
been keeping up with this seas
ons football reports can readily
see why Jackson has such a high
rating.
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