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SOCIAL BRIEFS
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Miss Virginia Boydston of
Topeka, Kansas is the Holiday
guefct of her aunt Mrs. John Mc
Williams and Mr. McWilliams.
Mr. LeRoy Gardenhire of To
peka, Kansas is spending the
holidays with his mother, Mrs.
Walter Gill. He will spend about
10 days in the city.
Miss Ellen Roy, who is associat
ed with the Denver U. S. O., is
spending the holidays with her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Roy.
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The Artis and Roy families had
a family reunion Christmas day.
Mr. and Mrs. James Butler and
son are spending the holidays in
Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Butler has
recently returned from Califor
nia. The Butlers plan to make
their home in Denver, Colorado
in the near future.
Rev. and Mrs. John S. Favors
spent Christmas Day in Omaha.
Returning Sunday will be Mrs.
Brevy Lilly, who has spent sev
eral days with her sister and
'brother-in-law, Rev. and Mrs.
Fox of St. Louis. Mo.
Coming from Broken Bow to
spend several days with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. James King, were Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton D. Conrad. Christ
mas dinner was served at the
Conrad home, 2544 Vine, with
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. King and
family and the Misses Beatrice
Bernice and Tresa Motley of Al
liance as honored guests.
j After January 1, Mr. and Mrs.
James King will move into their
new home at 2245 S Street.
Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard G. Huston were Mr. and
Mrs. Chester Harris of Frankfort,
Kansas and their son, Otis of
Los Angeles, California. Other
guests included Mrs. Jesse Allen,
Mr. John Logan, both of Omaha,
and Mrs. Cleo Ross Meeker who
is teaching in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stith and
daughter Maxine of Fairbury
spent Christmas day visiting with
^Mrs. Stith’s brother and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe W. Adams and the
brother and sister-in-law of Mr.
Stith, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stith.
Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Handy had
as their dinner guests on Monday,
Dr. and Mrs. L. S. Goolsby, son
and daughter, Charles and Mel
sena Goolsby.
An annual affair for the past
eight years has been the Christ
muS dinner at the Shakespeare
home with the Rev. and Mrs.
Trago McWilliams Jr., Rev. and
Mrs. Trago McWilliams Sr., and
Richard McWilliams. Mr. and.
Mrs. John Johnson were also
guests.
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Newton
were Lincoln visitors Thursday.
Mr. Joseph V. Casmer, is spend
ing his two week vacation at his
home in Parsons, Kansas.
The Annual Christmas party
for adults of the Urban League
will be held on Saturday evening
at 8:00 p. m.
The Urban League Christmas
tree for the children was held
Monday evening.
Several groups of carolers were
heard during the past two weeks.
Mr. Millard T. Woods, Muske
gan, Michigan and son, Millard
Jr., are spending the week with
Mrs. Woods. Mr. Woods is the
former executive secretary of the
Lincoln Urban League. He is
now Executive Secretary of the
Citizens Recreation Association in
Muskegon.
Mr. Will Patrick of Grand Is
land was a recent visitor.
Mr. Nimrod Ross is con valesing
at his home after spending about
two weeks in a hospital.
Guests at the Howard Molden
home Thursday were the parents
of Mr. Molden, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Molden of Weeping Water, Ne
braska.
Mrs. Virginia Lewis, who has
been quite ill, is reported some
what improved.
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Editors Note: Beginning with the
next issue, Mrs. Horace Cooke
will have charge of a column en
titled “This Is Your Community.”
Mrs. Cooke will interview per
sons and have them express free
ly what they think about various
subjects with an idea of improv
ing the community as a wThole.
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CARD OF THANKS
Mr. Nimrod Ross, 2124 Q St.
wishes to express his thanks and
sincere appreciation to his many
friends for the kindness shown
him during his illness.
The Sports Front
With Smoky
Monday night the Urban Lea
gue cagers go into action against
the Omaha YMCA cagers. For
some years there has been a good
deal of rivalry between the two
teams so basketball fans should
be in for plenty of good fast
action.
Monday night a thrilling crowd
waited patiently for two unde
feated teams to make their ap
pearence on the hardwood of
Tennessee, only to be disappoint
ed by the announcement that the
game had been called off because
of Duquesne Negro star, Cooper.
It is estimated that between
twenty three and twenty four
hundred had turned out. It seems
to me that if this many people
would turn out knowing that a
Negro player was going to play,
surely the game was not called
off because of their disapproval.
It must be because of segregation
in the schools not so much in the
public eye, as it is so often stated.
As long as games are cancelled
some will begin to see 4hat this
childish tradition is not the be
ginning to an end but the end to
a beginning.
Honor Joe Louis al Testimonial
NEW YORK (ANP)—Joe Louis
was honored guest at a testimon
ial dinner sponsored by the Sou
thern Conference for Human
Welfare in Starlight Roof of the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel here last
Wednesday night. SCHW was
seeking funds to further its fight
to bring about interracial equal
ity for Negroes throughout the
nation, particularly in the south.
One of the features of the din
ner was the auctioning off for
$1,500 of the boxing gloves used
by Louis in his recent Mauriello
match. Winner and proud owner
of the gloves is Herman Sodel,
white, of New Rochelle, N. Y.
Led by singer-crooner Frank
Sinatra, movie stars, newspaper
editors, composers, cartoonists,
radio commentators, promoters
and national leaders ascended the
speakers’ platform to pay tribute
to Louis and give their views of
the plight of Negroes in the south.
In answer to the many eulogies,
Louis declared, “I want to thank
all of you for the good kind words
you said about me. You give me
a long hard way to go. The road
may be bumpy but you all will
do a good repair job. We need
much traffic on that road or the
others will push us off—you know
who I mean.
“The Southern Conference
shouldn’t give me a special honor.
Percy Green should get the hon
ors. He and the little people
who went to the polls down there
for the first time—they made the
dream of Abraham Lincoln come
true.”
Percy Green is editor of the
Jackson, Miss., Advocate. He was
among those who attended the
dinner.
Continuing, Joe said, “Some
people ask me why I mix up in
things like this. They all mean
all right but they don’t know.
It means citizenship. It means
punching in and out of the ring.
I hate jim crow. I hate disease.
I hate the poll tax. I hate keep
ing people down because they’re
colored.
“But I ain’t going to let my
hate keep me down. I’m going
to keep punching. The Southern
Conference for Human Welfare
is my kind of people. It’s your
kind of people. And with all you
people behind me I know I can’t
go wrong.”
Several of the 700 persons at
tending the dinner made individ
ual contributions which match
the sum received from the fight
gloves auctioning.
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