Volume 1, Number 52
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Nebraska Annual Conference
* Meets
The Twenty-Seventh Annual
Session of the Nebraska Confer
ence of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church opened Wed
nesday morning in Kansas City,
Kansas, Oct. 1, with the Rt. Rev.
Noah W. Williams, presiding.
The Conference is being held
at First Church in Kansas City
with the Rev. S. H. Lewis as host.
Among those attending from
this area will be the Rev. L. S.
Goolsby, presiding elder of the
Omaha District and Mrs. Goolsby;
the Rev. R. E. Handy, pastor of
* Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church,
* Lincoln, and Mrs. Handy; Rev.
John Humbert, pastor of Beatrice
A. M. E. Church and Mrs. Hum
bert; Rev. M. L. Shakespeare,
pastor at Hastings, and Mrs.
Shakespeare; and Evangelist Bel
va Spicer, pastor at Grand Is
land.
The Conference will close Sun
day following the appointments.
Entertains
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Todd, 2267 Y,
entertained at dinner Monday,
Sept. 29. The following out of
town guests were present: Mr.
and Mrs. Gardenshire of Salina,
Kans., Mr. Gardenshire of Alma,
Kans., Mrs. H. Jarrett of Topeka,
Kans., Mrs. S. Wingo of San An
tonio, Texas, and Mrs. Parks.
Other guests shared honors.
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Mother of Mrs. William Beach
Taken by Death
Mrs. Camilla Simpson, 74, died
Monday morning, September 29,
at Clarinda, la., after an illness
which lasted 40 years.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Wm. Beach of Lincoln, and hus
band, Mr. Wm. Simpson, who al
so lives here.
Funeral was held at Umbergers,
Wednesday at 1 o’clock with
burial in Wyuka.
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Newman Methodist Church was
the scene of a rather unique pro
gram Sunday evening, Sept. 28,
with the Rev. G. W. Harper, pas
tor, in charge. The program con
sisted of a male chorus and sever
al women voices that were ac
claimed especially outstanding.
The singers came in cars from
Omaha in an effort to lend in
spiration to the church. A near
capacity audience attended.
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COMING EVENTS
Hobby Show at the Lincoln
Urban League, October 24 & 25
You’ll want to display your
antiques. Your treasured posses
sions will be carefully guarded.
An individual booth will be pre
pared for you upon request. Call
Mrs. Sarah Walker at the Urban
League.
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Nebraska City
Mr. Alonzo Adams, veteran of
World War I, is reported gravely
ill at his home in Nebraska City.
He suffered a heart attack sever
al weeks ago while working at
Ashland.
Joins Voice Staff
Mrs. Roberta Burch Molden has
joined the staff of The Voice as
Associate Editor.
Mrs. Molden attended the Uni
versity of Nebraska and took a
special course in business admini
stration, was employed as secre
tary at the Lincoln Urban League
having charge of the Urban Lea
gue Bulletin for 5 years. She is
active in religious, civic and so
cial affairs of the community
which also serves to qualify her
for this position.
Mrs. Molden will also serve in
the capacity as special reporter.
You may call her for your news
items. Phone 2-1407 or call at
1966 U Street. She will be glad
to help you with any news prob
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UJc. facts and Faces.HAITI
Haiti, visited by Columbus on his first
voyage of discovery in 1492, shares the
Caribbean Island of Hispaniola with the
Dominican Republic. In her early history
a French colony, Haiti still retains the
French language in a largely Spanish
speaking area. Her principal industries are
agricultural and many important products are taken from her semi
tropical forests. Haiti’s chief seaport is her capital, Port-au-Prince,
on a west coast harbor. The Republic’s permanent representative to
the United Nations is her ambassador to the United States, Joseph D.
Charles. Her flag has blue and red horizontal stripes, with the coun
try’s crest set against a white background in the center of the banner.
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Courtesy of the Lincoln Farm and Home News~
Negroes Hard Hit In
Delta Hurricane
New Orleans (ANP)—Estimates
of the total death toll and de
struction of property on the At
lantic coast and Mississippi from
the hurricane area were far from
complete over the weekend, but
Louisiana crops sustained more
than $10,000,000 in damage while
the shrimp canning plants at Bay
St. Louis, Miss., town which was
practically wiped from the face
of the earth, suffered a $6,000 000
damage. In these same sections
hardest hit by the hurricane hun
dreds of residents were either
dead, missing or injured includ
ing scores of Negroes.
The identified dead at Bay
Minette, Ala., on Saturday inclu
ded two Negroes, Mrs. Beatrice
White, 40, and her six-year-old
stepson, both of Bay St. Louis,
Miss.
Waveland, Miss., a popular va
cation village half way between
New Orleans and Biloxi, was lev
eled to the ground during one of
the worst wind storms ever wit
nessed in that section for years.
Eyewitnesses to the vast destruc
tion say the place is gone for 50
years. It will take six months,
officials predict, before the
shrimp plant can operate again
at Bay St. Louis.
The fury of tropical storms and
their deadly destructive power
were vividly made convincing by
the shambles left at Biloxi in the
wake of the hurricane. The a
tomic bomb, though terribly des
tructive, is no match for nature
in hw fury and wild rampage
S’utty a$ struck last Week.
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Harlem Remembers LaGuardia
As Friepd
New York (ANP)—The death
of former Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia demonstrated, among
other things, that Harlemites
know their friends from their en
emies.
LaGuardia had lived in Har
lem for 11 years during the 3
Justice Hubert T. Delany, Pa
terms he served as mayor,
role Commissioner Samuel J. Bat
tle, Justice Jane Bolin and Spec
ial Sessions Judge Myles Paige
were among the Harlemites ap
pointed to top positions during
the LaGuardia regime.
Hope R. Stevens, first Negro
to meet LaGuardia when thou
sands of Harlemites rioted over
the shooting of a soldier in the
summer of 1940, called the for
mer chief executive’s death a
tragedy of great magnitude.
“In the passing of LaGuardia,
the militant young lawyer said,
“America loses one of its most
enlightened and courageous of
statesmen; New York its most
valuable present-day citizen. The
Negro people have great reason
to regret the untimely death of
a champion of democracy who
divorced his actions from consid
erations of race, creed, or color.”
An estimated 15,000 Negroes
viewed LaGuardia’s body at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
including the former mayor’s col
ored housekeeper and her assist
ant.
fackie Makes Debut
The Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson
vill make his radio debut on the
‘Big Break” program October 6,
vhich will be right after the
World Series. He was denied
permission to make any public
appearances away from the ball
park during the regular season.
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Alliance Boy Makes Good
Back from Alliance with sever
al members of his Omaha Athlet
ic Club boxing team, Coach Jess
Baker had praise for HeaVyw’t
Eugene Brown, who was stopped
in the first round by James Mot
ley . . . “Brown, despite his lack
of experience, had Motley all but
on the ropes in the first minute,*’
Baker explained. “But he didn’t
get out of the way of Motley’s
body blows, and lost the bout.
They should make a great re
match in the Golden Gloves this
winter.”
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Spends Vacation in California
Mr. Joseph Burden, 840 No. 25,
has recently returned from a ten
days vacation in California, visit
ing his sisters, Mrs. Mary Bur
den Davis and Mrs. Alfred Pic
kens. Mr. Burden reports a de
lightful* trip and he is thrilled
with the hospitality of the Cali
fornians. He told of numerous
parties and social courtesies in
which he was honored. He also
brought greetings from former
Lincolnites, Mrs. Flossie Patrick,
Mrs. Mabel Galbreth, Mrs. Anna
Ray and Mr. Lloyd Carter all
well known former residents. Mr.
Burden is especially attracted to
the California climate, and has
decided to make frequent visits.
Mr. Burden is a native Nebras
kan and one of the oldest home
steaders in Saline County.
He is employed gs a skilled
mechanic with the Nebraska Pub
lic Power District in Lincoln, a
position which he has held for
over 30 years.
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General Conference Seat Changed
The General Conference of the
A. M. E. Church which was to
have met at Los Angeles, Calif.,
has been changed to Kansas City,
Kansas, to meet in May 1948, it
was announced by Bishop Noah
W. Williams.