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Volume 1, Number 11 Lincoln 3, Nebraska December 20, 1946 Patterson Appointed To Red Cross Committee Art Work On Lincoln U Prof. Accepted for Art Show Exhibit In Omaha • Jefferson City, Mo.— (ANP)— Among the works of seven Mis souri artists that have been se-; lected by a jury of art critics to represent the state in the annual Six State Regional Art show in Omaha is a lithograph done by j James D. Parks, assistant profes sor of art at Lincoln university, it was announced here last week. The art show, to be held this month at the Joslyn Memorial Art museum in Omaha, is spon sored by the Society of Liberal arts. States represented are Colo Nebraska and South Dakota. Parks’ lithograph Portrays Joej Louis’s dramatic knockout of $John Henry Lewis. Copies of this print, entitled “The Knockout”, have previously been purchased for the permanent art collections of Atlanta university and Spring field, Mo., Art museum. -o Bill io Outlaw "Racketeering In Hatred" Proposed In Indiana INDIAN APOBIS— (ANP)—1The Republican legislative policy committee “adopted in principle” here last week a proposed bill for the January session of the legislature which would make “racketerring in hatred” a new crime in Indiana. The measure was proposed by James A. Em * mert, attorney general for the state, and was directed at the Ku Klux Klan and similar organiza tions. Republicans will have de cisive majorities in both house of the legislature and should be able to put through the bill with out difficulty. The bill, which carries stiff penalties for violation, would make it unlawful for “any person or persons to agree, combine, unite, confederate, conspire, or ganize, associate or assemble with any other person or persons for the purpose of creating advoca ting, spreading or disseminating hatred by reason of race, color or religion not prohibited by law, for or against any person not an $alien enemy of the United States.” -o Beatrice News Mrs. Wm. Becks is a patient at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln. (Soofr fill (Eotttarft WASHINGTON—(ANP)— Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tus kegee institute, was named Wed nesday to the central committee of the American Red Cross by Chairman Basil O’Connor. The Central committee, a small group of 18 members, is the supreme governing body of Red Cross, the President of the United States appointing five members and the organization itself selecting the remainder. Simultaneously with the ap pointment of President Patter son, who for several years has served as a member of the board of incorporators,, President Tru man announced his appointees to the central committee. They in cluded Maj. Gen. J. H. Hilldring, assistant Secretary of State; Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general of the army; Atty. Gen. Tom C. Clark; Rear Adm. Clif ford A. Swanson, surgeon general of the navy; and Joseph J. O’Con nell, general counsel of the U. S. treasury. Dr. Patterson was also named as a member of the execu tive committee of the Central committee. Other members of the Central committee named were Edward Dana, Boston and Mrs. Floyd W. McRae, Boston. The appointments were an nounced at a luncheon given for chapter delegates and the board of incorporators at the Statler hotel. W. Averell Harriman, new secertary of commerce, was the principal speaker. He urged that the international work of Red Cross be continued on a widening scale. Chairman O’Con nor, who was reappointed by President Truman Tuesday, pre sided. Sec. 562, P. L. & R.
