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Big Six Group
Guest of Urban
•» League Here
Concluding Saturday’s meet at
the Big Six student council rep
resentatives, the Lincoln Urban
League with Clyde M. Malone,
Executive Secretary, was host to
the group.
Representatives from Omaha,
Leo M. Bohanan, Executive Sec
retary of the Omaha Urban
League and Ralph Adams were
invited guests. Other guests in
cluded R. T. Malone, President of
the Lincoln Urban League and
Clayton P. Lewis. Grand Master
of the Nebraska Masonic Lodge.
A buffet lunch was served and
Mrs. Eugenia Brown and Miss
Jeanne Malone were hostesses.
A A summary of earlier meetings
was given and a committee of
three selected to work with stu
dent bodies in an effort to form a
permanent committee on the elim
ination of “racial discrimination”
not only in athletics but in every
phase of university activity in the
Big Six Conference.
Red Youth Group
Bans All Religion
MOSCOW. (INS). Belief in God
and religious observances were
banned for communists Saturday
night in a stern party reminder
M citing Premier Stalin’s stand fa
voring science versus religion.
The central committee of the
Young Communist organization
published its ruling in the youth
newspaper Komsomolskaya Prav
da and quoted Stalin as saying:
“The party cannot be neutral
regarding religion.
The committee, in ruling against
communists going to church or
having anything to do with re
ligion, declared its job is to aid
in eliminating “religious supersti
tions.”
—Courtesy of Lincoln Journal.
Mrs. Jenkins of Phoenix
Wins $1,000 in Contest
V Mrs. Tommy Jenkins of 1729 E.
Jefferson, was winner of one of
the five weekly contests in a re
cent nation-wide competition
sponsored by the Proctor and
Gamble cleanser Spic and Span.
Making the presentation were Joe
Ganci and Tom Pavey, Phoenix
representatives of Proctor and
Gamble. Mrs. Jenkins’ winning
entry on “I like Spic and Span
because—” will be judged along
with the four other weekly win
ners for the grand prize, the win
ner’s choice of a lump $20,000 or
$100 a month for life. Mrs. Jenk
ins will use her prize money
toward purchase of a home.
Herman Tapp of this city is an
pi acquaintance of Mrs. Jenkins.
Program is a Success
Lester Corbin, concert artist,
was featured during the program
presented Friday night by the
Junior Choir of Pilgrim Baptist
Church of Omaha.
The 40-Voice choir composed of
teen age boys and girls were ac
claimed one of the best programs
of its kind presented in recent
years.
After the Negro National An
them, which opened the program,
.invocation • was given *by Rev.
Charles Favors, pastor of Pilgrim
4 and father of Rev. John Favors
who is pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, host to the singers.
A variety program followed in
which various soloists and readers
displayed outstanding abilities.
People You Should Know
Mr. and Mrs. Obbie Brown
Mr. Obbie Brown graduated
from Wiley College with a B. S.
degree and is soon to get his
Masters degree in January from
the University of Nebraska.
He has taught at Prairie View
University in Texas where he
taught chemistry and mathe
matics and at Southern University
where he was the head of the
physics department and also
tought mathematics and physics
During the war years he was em
ployed at the National Bureau of
Standards, Washington, D. C. as
a junior chemist.
He is on the National Roster
of Scientific Personnel. He is a
member of the Phi Beta Sigma
fraternity.
Mrs. Brown is a Junior at the
University of Nebraska School of
Music where for her Freshman
year she received a scholarship.
She is working toward a music
degree which will enable her to
go into the public school music
field.
She attended the Juilliard
School of Music in New York
where she majored in choral di
Lefs Get
Acquainted
In order that the Lincolnites
may get acquainted we are pre
senting a different family each
week.
This week we shall introduce
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tapp and
their three children, Patricia
Rae, 9, Pamela Frances 3, and
Herman Franklin, Jr., 11
months. The Tapps formerly of
Phoenix, Arizona moved to Lin
coln in May, 1946. They now
reside at 1205 North 22. They
are members of Christ Temple
Holiness Church.
Mrs. Tapp is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Adams of
Nebraska City. She received her
high school education there and
a year at the University of Ne
braska.
Mr. Tapp was born in Homer,
Illinois and when quite young he
moved with his family to Okla
homa where he received his edu
rection and methods and also the
Howard University where she
took organ lessons. She received a
scholarship from campus Y. W.
C. A. in the summer of 1946 to
be a delegate to Estes Park, Colo
rado where a joint Y.M.-Y.W.
conference was held. She served
as organist for the worship serv
ices.
In the summer of 1946 she was
invited to be directress of music
at the White High School Method
ist Camp, Crete, Nebraska where
she directed a high school choir
of 50 voices.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown have
been active in various inter
racial groups to help fight for the
rights of Negroes in Lincoln. Mr.
Brown has been invited to various
churches to speak on racial intol
erance over the state as well as in
the city. Mrs. Brown has been
with students of other race groups
at schools and churches in the
city; on panel discussions and
game speeches on racial equality.
The Browns are making their
home during the school year with
Mrs. Brown’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Simms, 1947 S Street.
Ex-Slave, 95, Views
Freedom Train Documents
SALISBURY, Md. (ANP).—
Among the 13,000 eastern shore
residents who lined up to view the
historical documents contained in
the Freedom Train, on its first
stop below the Mason and Dixon
line here last week was Mrs.
Annie Gray, 95-year-old ex-slave
and native of Hollands island in
Chesapeake bay. The woman, born
in slavery, was particularly in
terested in two drafts of Lincoln's
Emancipation proclamation.
Mrs. Beard Joins
The Voice Staff
Mrs. Pansy Beard, president of
the Urban League Guild, has
joined The Voice staff as special
writer for Urban League news and
to assist in the Department of Cir
culation.
cation at Dunbar high school in
Muskogee.
After moving to Arizona, he
took a domestic course in cook
ing.
Equality of
Races Asked
In Athletics
Sttfdeiits Hit at
Discrimination
Resolutions to remove “racial
discrimination” in Missouri Val
ley Intercollegiate Athletic asso
ciation conference athletics were
adopted unanimously Saturday
at a meeting of student council
representatives.
Five of the seven member col
leges sent delegates to the meet
ing, called by Harold Mozer, pres
ident of the University of Ne
braska council.
The resolutions would remove
present requirements under which
visiting squads must abide by the
rules of the host school. Since
neither the Universities of Mis
souri or Oklahoma permit Negroes
to participate in athletic events on
their campuses, other conference
schools must abide by these rules
when visiting.
The student officers voted to
permit any eligible student of a
(conference) member institution
to participate in all competitive
athletic events.
Earlier, the meeting was told,
the University of Missouri stu
d e n t government association
adopted a resolution permitting
any “student in good standing”
of a conference college to take
part in athletic events.
Attending the meeting were
Don De LaHunt, president of the
student council, Robert Miller and
Jean Kroger, Iowa State; Lynn
Leight, Kansas university; Don
Ford, president of the student
council, Kansas State; Lou Rovira,
president of the student council,
and John Zisch, University of
Colorado, and Mozer and Dale
Novotny, University of Nebraska.
Student council representatives
formed a permanent committee
headed by Frank Stannard of
Lawrence, Kas., to direct their
fight against “racial discrimina
tion” in conference athletics.
At an afternoon session the
j council representatives unani
mously endorsed resolutions de
signed to erase athletic racial
barriers in the school league.
Harold Mozer, University of Ne
braska student council president,
said Saturday night if conference
officials, fail to act on the resolu
tions he “believed further action
would be taken” by his school’s
student council. »
Schools not represented at the
i Saturday sessions were the Uni
versity of Colorado, which does
not officially join the conference
until Dec. 1 and Oklahoma, which
reported insufficient notice for at
tendance.
The University of Missouri stu
dent council voted not to send
a delegate to the conference, but
was represented by Ray Solmol.
Students at the University of
Oklahoma sent word they had not
had an opportunity to elect a
delegate.
—Courtesy The Journal.
Rev. Eugene Graham
Laid to Rest
Final rites for Rev. Eugene
Graham, former pastor of New
man Methodist Church, will be
held in St. Louis, Mo. He passed
away in Iouisiana, Mo. Eugene
and Bobbie Graham 4t this city
are grandchildren.
Welcome to
New Citizens
Living In City
Twenty new American citizens
who live in Lincoln will be feted
on Wednesday night by a dinner
and program. They will receive
their civic welcome into citizen
ship at the chamber of commerce
at 6:30 that evening. All obtained
citizenship during the past year.
Guest speaker at the dinner will
be Judge E. B. Chappell of the
state supreme court who will dis
cuss the privileges that the new
! class may now enjoy. Judge Chap
pell presided in district court
when citizenship applications
were handled there, and is also a
former member of the chamber’s
citizenship committee.
Welcome to the new citizens
will be extended by a representa
tive of'Governor Val Peterson, by
Mayor Clarence Miles and by
Chamber President Ernest Smith.
Ban on Segregation
Boosts Catholic Members
CHICAGO. (ANP). “More Ne
groes belong to the Catholic
church than to any other Christian
religious body in the world,” a
December Negro Digest article as
serts in announcing that in the
world at large more than 20 mil
lion colored people are Catholics.
“Here in the U. S.,” the Negro
Digest story asserts, “there is no
South Catholic church (to dis
tinguish it from the north) and no
Negro Catholic church (to distin
guish it from white).
“Once a Negro becomes a Cath
olic with instructions and Baptism,
he is fully and completely a Cath
olic with all the benefits and
rights disregarding race or color.
And he is entitled to—and receives
—full participation in Catholic
life of worship and education ev
erywhere.”
New Stamps for Liberia
MONROVIA. (ANP). Commem
orative stamps, observing the 100th
anniversary of Liberian independ
ence, have been issued by the
African republic, seven new prints
now being offered.
Four postage and three airmail
stamps have been printed by the
E. A. Wright Bank Note company
of Philadelphia.
The postage stamps will be one,
two, three and five cents while
the air mails will be 12, 25 and 50
cents.
The 12 cent stamp will depict
the memorial monument to Joseph
Jenkins Roberts, the Virginian,
who was governor and first presi
dent of the republic. The 25 cent
stamp will show the Liberian flag
and the 50 cent stamp will have
the centenary monument recently
builf in the Liberian capital.
Collectors are eagerly watching
this new series.
Haiti Congratulates
New Fisk President
WASHINGTON.—In a commu
nication from the embassy here,
Joseph D. Charles, Haitian am
bassador to the United States, last
week sent congratulations of the
republic to Dr. Charles S. Johnson
upon his succession to the presi
dency of Fisk University. The
communications stated in part:
“It Is with real joy that I have
the double privilege of bringing
you the congratulations of the
President of the Republic of Haiti
and the best wishes of the Univer
sity of Haiti on the occasion of
your inauguration as the sixth