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Volume 2, Number 14 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, January 8, 1948
Carver Inundation Carries On Despite Fire
Mrs. Har^v'**
Elects 9<*«v'6
Woii *\ron
At a recent ->n of officers
of Amaranth C .apter O. E. S.
Mrs. Zeola Hammond was elected
Worthy Matron to succeed Mrs.
Izetta Malone who has seryed for
the past year. Miss Frances Lew
is was elected Associate Mat
ron; Mrs. Buelah Bradley, Secre
tary; Mrs. Brevy Miller, Treas
urer; Mrs. Marie Bonds, Conduc
tress; Mrs. Sophronia Green, As
sociate Conductress and Mr. Clay
ton P. Lewis, Associate Patron.
The meeting was held at the
Urban League with the Associate
Patron in charge.
The Voice To Support
Carver Foundation At
Tuskegee Institution
In an effort to help expand and
perpetuate the work of the late
Dr. Carver, “The Voice,” will
launch a campaign in which a por
tion of the subscription price of
The Voice will be sent to the Car
ver Foundation at Tuskegee.
The George Washington Carver
Commemorative 3-cent postage
stamp was issued January 5, the
date of the fifth anniversary of
Dr. Carver and designated George
Washington Carver day in a proc
lamation by President Truman.
With each subscription will be
given a Carver Seal or a Carver
Commemorative Stamp.
Political Science Award
To Civil Rights Group
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The
President's Committee on Civil
Rights was the recipient of a ci
tation and award given by the
American Political Science asso
ciation during its evening session
in Hotel Statler here last week.
The award, presented by Louis
Brownlow, president of the Frank
lin D. Roosevelt Memorial foun
dation, was received by Robert
J. Carr, executive secretary of
the committee.
In making the citation, Dr.
Charles E. Merriam, professor
emeritus of the University of Chi
cago, praised the controversial
civil rights report “for its appre
ciation of the American heritage,
its painting of lights and shadows,
and strengthening of democracy.”
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You Know—
. orty-one Negroes have re
ceived the Congressional Medal
of Honor, America’s highest
award for heroism?
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Father John M. Faustina, S.S.Er
of the Society of St. Etmund who
was ordained several months ago,
became the 25th colored priest in
the U. S.?
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WVON will be a new radio sta
tion in Chicago, 111., Negro
owned?
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For his contributions to science,
Dr. Percy L. JGlian, Negro atomic
scientist and researcher in the
development in World War II,
was winner of the 32nd Spingarn
Medal?
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Richmond Barthe, Negro sculp
j tor whose bust of Booker T. Wash
ington adorns the Hall of Fame,
was awarded an honorary degree
of Doctor of Fine Arts by St.
Francis Academy, Brooklyn,
N. Y.?
Worker Loses Job for
Anti-Bias Activities
INDIANAPOLIS. (ANP). Wil
son Head, president of the inter
racial Civil Rights committee, lost
his job as social worker in Flan
ner House here last Wednesday.
His services were discontinued be
cause of his crusading efforts to
break down discriminatory poli
cies directed against Negro citi
zens.
He and the committee were re
sponsible for getting many down
town restaurants to extend their
services to the Negro public. He
was discharged without a hearing,
though he, as well as the Associa
tion of Social workers, Indiana
and Indianapolis NAACP branch
es, repeatedly asked that an open
hearing be held. It was reported
that Mr. Head had issued a state
ment saying he had “resigned”
from his job—a statement which
he denied.
NAACP Holds Meeting
The regular meeting of the lo
cal branch of the NAACP was
held Friday evening in the li
brary room of the Urban League.
Plans were started for the an
nual membership drive to begin
in February.
Captains of the teams will be
selected at the next meeting to
be held the first Friday in Feb
ruary.
Patricia Jane Visiting Her
Grandmothers in Arkansas
Patricia Jane Johnson, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph John
son, enjoyed a wonderful Christ
mas. Santa brought her a “Patty
Jo” doll, table and chairs, big
ball, that bounces high. She and
Gwen Bowler played with friends
who brought some of the things
Santa gave them.
On Monday, December 29 at
, . Pat’s home she entertained some
.. of her friends from 2 to 5 p. m.
</ Those present were: Edna and
DeDee Keys, Davey and Carolyn
Radcliffe and Joan Whiteman.
They had fun and enjoyed re
freshments.
Pat is now visiting her two
f' grandmothers in Hope, Ark.
Death Takes
Mrs. Collins
Word was received Monday by
Mrs. Odessa Johnson of the death
Jan. 2 of Mrs. Belle Collins, for
mer Lincolnite and wife of the
late John Collins.
Funeral services will be held
Jan. 9 in Kansas City, Mo., where
she has made her home since
leaving Lincoln several years ago.
Mrs. Collins was an active
member of Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
Church where she was a member
of the choir.
Charles Goolsby Attends
Alpha Phi Alpha General
Convention at Tulsa
Charles M. Goolsby, Univer
sity of Nebraska Senior and
president-elect of Beta Beta
chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha .
Fraternity and Alfred H. Grice,
University Junior and retiring
president were in attendance
CHARLES GOOLSBY.
at the 33 rd General Convention
held in Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 28.
It was one of the largest dele
gations to attend a session of the
world’s oldest Negro Greek
letter society headed by Attor
ney Belford V. Lawson, promi
nent lawyer of Washington,
D. C.
The Fraternity created a new
jurisdiction to be known as the
Far Western Jurisdiction. This
gives Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
nity five jurisdictions, each of
which will be presided over by
a regional vice-president and
represented by an undergradu
ate member of the Executive
Council.
Other major developments art
the Tulsa Convention have been
the complete abolition of bru- <
tality in initiation of candidates,
authorization for setting up of
ten new Miapters—all under
graduate chapters, and award
ing of trophies and plaques to
several chapters for outstanding
accomplishments during the
past year.
Henry A. Wallace, third party
presidential possibility, was pre
vented from coming to Tulsa
for a talk on Sunday by weather
conditions in northern states, but,
in a prepared speech read to a
crowd of some 2,500 at Conven
tion hall, he stated:
“It is time for action to defend
Americans at home. Such action
is more essential to the mainte
nance of peace than the defense
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 1.)
New Honor to Dr. Carver;
Biography in Town Hall
Special to “The Voice” from Tuskegee.
Although a fire of undetermined origin virtually de
stroyed the laboratories and museum of the George Wash
ington Carver Foundation on Monday, November 24th,
1947, temporary offices have been set up in the Science
Building and activities are still going on apace.
On January 5, 4948, the first day of sale for the 3c
stamp honoring Dr. Carver was held at Tuskegee In
stitute, as previously planned. Plans were perfected to
make this a noteworthy occasion despite the disastrous fire.
At a special meeting or tne
Board of Directors of the Carver
Foundation, November 10, 1947, a
$2,000,000 endowment fund cam
paign was voted to be launched
concurrently with the issuance of
the Carver Commemorative Stamp,
Jan. 5, 1948. This drive is now
gathering momentum. In addition,
efforts will now be made to en
large the campaign to include
funds for a new modern building
to house the laboratories of the
Carver Foundation and Agricul
tural Experiment Station. This will
doubtless lead to separate housing
for the museum and the labora
tories.
An important phase of the en
dowment fund campaign is the
sale of a specially designed, en
graved first day cover for only
$1.00. These covers, or cachets, as
they are professionally known,
will be serviced with four of the
Carver Commemorative Stamps,
four of the regular Carver Seals,
in colors, and addressed to the
purchaser or his friends, by the
Carver Seal Committee which reg
ularly sponsors the sale of Carver
Seals each Carver day. These
covers will be officially cancelled
the “First Day of Issue” which will
add to their philatelic value.
In addition to those previously
received, a new honor has come
to Dr. Carver. On Dec. 4, 1947,
George Washington Carver was
honored by Town Hall. His bi
ography was placed in the Book
of Enduring Names, regularly dis
played at Town Hall in New York,
and the Carver Memorial Chair
was unveiled and permanently
placed in the Town Hall auditor
ium in New York City.
Fortunately, all of the records
of the Foundation and of Dr. Car
ver were saved from the fire.
Likewise, much of the works of
Dr. Carver previously on display
in the Museum can be salvaged for
future display. The greatest ir
replaceable loss sustained was that
of the Carver Art Collection. Some
of it, however, will be available
for future display.
Temoprary laboratories are al
ready being set up to carry on the
various research projects under
way at the time of the fire. None
of the outside research projects
will seriously suffer because of
the fire.
Friends of Dr. Carver and the
Carver Foundation are being
called upon to lend their full sup
port to the campaign for the en
dowment fund, as well as for the
new and modern Carver Labora
tories and Museum.
Inspirational Meeting
To Be at Quinn Chapel
The First Inspirational Meeting
of the Omaha Area of the Nebras
ka Conference Branch Women’s
Missionary Society will be held
January 23, at Quinn Chapel A.
M. E. Church, it was announced
by Mrs. Amemtha Handy, Super
visor.
Nine churches are expected to
be represented including Omaha,
Beatrice, Grand Island, Nebraska
City, Fremont, Hastings and Lin
coln. •
The sermon will be delivered
by the Rev. M. L. Shakespeare
and the guest speaker for the af
ternoon will be Miss Belva Spicer,
evangelist at Grand Island. Mrs.
E. B. Childress, Omaha, will sing.
Mrs. Hattie Adams, Omaha, is
supervisor of Young People’s de-.
partment.
Trail Blazers
Two Negroes were among the
blazers of the Oregon Trail and
became early settlers in that
state?
President Keynotes Tribute
To Carver, Negro Scientist
TUSKEGEE, Ala.—The great
and the humble joined in tribute
i Monday to a frail, slave-born
Negro, George Washington Car
ver, who rose to international
fame as a scientist, educator and
humanitarian.
Government officials, headed
by President Truman himself,
praised Dr. Carver in simple me
morial ceremonies at Tuskegee
institute, where the renowned
Negro spent most of a long and
brilliant career.
The program here keynoted
Carver day ceremonies across
the nation on the fifth anniver
sary of his death.
Carver, a University of Iowa
graduate, who rose to promi
nence thru his research^ work in
peanuts and sweet potatoes, was
memorialized with the issuance
of a special three-cent stamp.
President Truman sent a tele
gram to Dr. F. D. Patterson,
president of Tuskegee, and Post
master General Jesse Donaldson
was present to inaugurate the
stamp issue.
President Truman’s telegram
said in part:
“I always held Dr. Carver,
and now hold his memory, in
great esteem. Tuskegee Institute
is to be congratulated on its
privilege of carrying on, thru the
George Washington Carver foun
dation, the spirit and methods of
so distinguished a scientist and
benefactor to mankind."
The postmaster general, speak
ing to a mixed audience in the
chapel, said “Dr. Carver is in
every sense of the word one of
the most outstanding Americans
of our time."