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Volume 1, Number 48 Lincoln 3# Nebraska Sepi. 4, 1947
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Cooke Goes Out for Football
At University of Nebraska
Photo by MacDonald’s Studio
Bertram R. Cooke
Cooke, a freshman at the Uni
4k versity of Nebraska, says he has
been given the opportunity to go
out with the Freshmen football
team and when eligible, to play
in all games except Oklahoma
and Missouri.
This decision came after much
controversy on and off campus
during the past few years, when
the whole world seems to be
thinking in terms of brotherhood.
Clinton Ross, ’13 and *14, was
the last Negro to play on the Uni
versity Football team.
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Mrs. Ruth Green
Mrs. M. J. Bradford
Mrs. Arthur Blackwell
Mrs. Fannie Foster
Mr. Elbert Hamilton
Mrs. M. Williford
Mrs. Minnie Wilson, Omaha
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Playmate Club Members
These are a few of a host of
children who are anxious to be
come Playmate Club Members.
Watch for them.
1. Lester Colliers, Jr., 8
4
2. Murvia Jean, 5
3. Donald Ray, 1
4. Pearl, 4
Mt. Zion Host to Omaha
Baptist Churches
Special services will be held at
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 12 and
F, Sunday, September 7.
At the eleven o’clock service
the Rev. U. L. Barron of Omaha
will preach.
Rev. F. C. Williams of Zion
Baptist Church of Omaha, the
largest Negro Baptist Church in
the state, will preach in the after
noon. With Rev. Williams will be
his congregation and a large male
chorus, consisting of the leading
men from all Omaha Baptist
Churches.
Everybody is welcome to at
tend.
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Lewis Masonic Speaker
Clayton P. Lewis, grand master
of Nebraska Masons, was princi
pal speaker at the silver anni
versary banquet Prince Hall Ma
sons of Kansas on Tuesday Aug.
26 at Junction City, Kan.
The affair was given in honor
of Dr. J. G. N. Soanes, who has
served a quarter of a century as
grand master of the body.
Governor Frank Carlson was
also a speaker.
The souvenir program featur
ing Mr Lewis was one of the fin
est.
Brilliant Chicago Surgeon Named
To Famous Hospital
Chicago (ANP)—Cook County
hospital here last week welcomed
Dr.4 Roscoe C. Giles, noted Chi
cago surgeon. He was assigned
to active duty on the surgical
staff. The institution is one of
the largest of its kind in the
world.
A surgeon of rare ability, Dr.
Giles performed his first opera
tion at the County hospital on a
white patient. His nurse told
him how pleased she was to have
worked with him and that she
hoped to have the opportunity
of doing so often.
During the recent war, Dr. Giles
was the chief of the surgical ser
vice at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
He is a graduate of Cornell uni
versity, a fellow of the American
college of surgeons and the Inter
national college of surgeons as
well as a former president of the
National Medical association.
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Singfesi at Pinewood Bowl
The last in the series of sum
mer singfests will be held at
Pinewood Bowl Sunday evening
at 7:30 p.m. The Reverend John
F. Wichelt will bring the medi
tation, and special music will be
provided by the Cretonians.
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Admitted To Press Gallery
A signal victory was won this
year when three Negro newsmen
were admitted to the congression
al press galleries. First to be ad
mitted was Percival L. Prattis,
a correspondent for “Our World”
magazine, who was admitted to
the Periodical Press gallery of
the senate. He was admitted 4
days before Louis R. Lautier, At
lanta Daily World correspondent
and National Negro Publishers
association chief. Mrs. Alice
Dunnigan, Associated Negro Press
correspondent, was admitted la
ter after Sen. C. Wayland Brooks
(Rep. 111.) chairman of the senate
committee on rules and admini
stration, overrode the white
newsmen’s objections.
See picture on page 3.
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Educator Lashes at Racial Curbs
Madison, Wis.—Laurence Dug
gan, director of the Institute of
International Education, asked
the nation’s students Monday to
help eliminate undemocratic prac
tices, such as racial discrimina
tion.
Mr. Duggan, speaking at a con
vention of the newly-formed or
ganization, said that many foreign
students attending American col
leges often are disillusioned by
discriminatory practices against
minorities.
Dr. R. O. Johnson, of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin Office of Ed
ucation, told the students that
more opportunities must be pro
vided immediately for Negroes in
the nation’s colleges.
Omaha World Herald
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Photo by Randol
Barbara Jean Kelley, “Miss
Personality” for Langston Univer
sity for 1947 and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jewell R. Kelley, Sr.,
will leave Sunday, September 7,
to return to Langston for her
Senior year.
Three Injured in Car Crash
Three persons were injured at
about 1:24 a. m. Wednesday when
the car in which they were rid
ing developed a defect in the
front wheel and crashed out of
control into a light pole.
Mrs .Evelyn Adams, 21, of 239
So. 20th, who suffered head in
juries, remained at St. Elizabeth
hospital for observation. Less
seriously hurt was the driver,
Andrew F. Adams, 31, who had
chest lacerations. Miss Faith Has
sel, 23, also of 239 So. 20th, suf
fered facial cuts.
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Annual Conference Closes
The 26 Annual Convention of
the Nebraska Conference Branch
Woman’s Missionary Society of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, held in Omaha August
28 and 29, was one of the most
inspirational and educational on
record.
It came one month after the
Missionary Quadrennial which
was held in New Orleans, La.,
and many delegates present made
their reports.
Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Goolsby,
supervisors of the Omaha district,
were present.
Mrs. Jennie R. Edward, Mrs.
A. Handy, and Mrs. R. Shakes
peare were delegates. Mrs. Mary
M. Kidd, Kansas City, was elected
president.
Other officers included: Mrs.
Camille Briggs, Atchison, First
Vice President; Mrs. Chloe Green,
Atchison, Second Vice President;
Mrs. Alberta Herriford, Kansas
City, Recording Secretary; Mrs.
Mary Jane Duncan, Omaha, As
sistant Recording Secretary; Mrs.
Benella R. Lee, Kansas City, Cor
responding Secretary; Mrs. Laura
S. Adams, Kansas City, Treasurer;
Mrs. Winifred Newton, Beatrice,
Statistical Secretary; Mrs. Helen
Newton, Leavenworth, Supt. of
Young People’s Dept.
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Nebraska City News
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Givehand
and daughter Jane Louise, in
company with their mother, Mrs.
Alonzo Adams and Patricia mo
tored to Lincoln Monday.
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Mr. Alonzo Adams left Sunday
for Ashland, Nebr., where he will
work with the Patrol.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Adams
are expected to spend the week
end here.
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Mina Haley, of West Plains,
Mo., will be the house guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Givehand while at
tending school here.
Photo by Randol
Miss Evelyn Chue was photo
graphed in the Rose Manor Studio
during a recent visit at the home
of Mrs. John Miller, 309 So. 20.
Miss Chue was graduated from
the University of Nebraska in ’45
and has been employed as assist
ant director of young people at
the Clay Avenue Y.W.C.A. in San
Diego, Calif.
She worked with boys and girls
from Junior High School through
Junior College age. Their pro
gram for the year was in the form
of Y-Teen groups, Interest groups
Co-Ed and Recreation groups
with Vesper service every third
Sunday.
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The Lincoln Urban League is
sponsoring a public reception
honoring Miss Thompson on Tues
day evening, September 9th at
8:00 p.m. at the Urban League
Building, 2030 “T” St., to permit
her many friends to bring her
greetings. The public is cordi
ally invited.
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A New Police Captain (Negro)?
New York City (ANP)—Police
Lieut. George Redding, one of
New York’s three ranking Negro
police officers, is expected to learn
soon whether he is eligible for
appointment to a captaincy.
Lieut. Redding, one of two Ne
groes to take the examination for
captaincy several weeks ago, will
disappoint thousands if it devel
ops that he has failed to pass the
examination.
Most of the 350 Negro members
of the police department are will
ing to wager that Lieut. Redding
passed high on the list of eligibles.
As one of them put it: “George
is a studious fellow. He has nev
er failed before and he has always
turned up high on the list.”
Some months ago Lieut. Eman
uel Kline was named an acting
captain when Cong. Adam Clay
ton Powell passed the political
word along that Negroes of the
city were entitled to mtore recog
nition.
