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AME General
Conference
Plans Set
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The 33rd
quadrennial session of the General
Conference of African Meth
odist Episcopal church will open
here May 5. Sessions will be held
at Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memo
rial hall, 7th and Barnett Ave.,|
and more than 15,000 persons in
cluding all bishops, general offi
cers, delegates and visitors from
g the United States, Canada, the
West Indies, South America and
South and West Africa, many of
whom are already in the United
States, will attend.
The election of Bishops will
highlight the conference, the
elected elders to be consecrated
to the office of Bishop on May 15.
The conference will open at 10
a. m. with communion at the First
AME Church with the Bishop
Williams delivering the quadren
nial sermon and Bishop R. R.
Wright, Wilberforce University,
the Episcopal Address. Gov.
Frank Carlson of Kansas will wel
I come the conference that night.
Preceding the conference, the
Rev. John S. Williams will di
rect 250 selected voices from
Kansas City AME choirs and a
unit of the Kansas City Philhar
monic orchestra in Nathaniel
Dett’s “Ordering of Moses.”
“All plans are complete,” the
Rev. S. H. Lewis, D.D., host pas
tor said. “We are ready. We have
had splendid co-operation from
all citizens of Greater Kansas
City.” The Rt. Rev. Noah W.
Williams of the Fifth Episcopal
District, which includes Nebraska,
will be the host prelate.
Pictured at right are a few
candidates among the many who
are running for the Bishopric.
Admission to
N.C. Uni. Sought
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (ANP)^
Negroes are seeking admittance
to graduate schools of the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Dr. Frank U. Graham, presi
dent of the greater university,
Tuesday had three applications
from Negroes-on his desk. Two
asked admittance as law students
and the third as a medical stu
dent.
“We have no alternative in con
sidering these applications,” Rob
ert B. House, the chancellor, re
ported, “except to make a report
of them to the board of trustees.
If any action is to be taken in
this matter it must be taken by
the trustees.”
Music Teachers
To Meet May 9th
The Nebraska Music Teachers
Association will meet this week
end at St. Paul Methodist church.
On the program for Sunday eve
ning, May 9, the U.L. Girls Glee
Club is scheduled to appear. The
twenty-six girls in the choral
group were organized last winter
by Mrs. Sarah Walke.*, U.L. Di
rector of Women’s Work and Mrs.
Eugenia Brown directs the en
semble.
THE REV. J. R. COAN
received his B.A. degree from
Howard University, and his B.D.
and M.A. degrees from Yale
University. He holds the Hon
orary Degree of D.D. from Mor
ris Brown College.
Rev. Coan is Editor of Lead
ership Training Bulletin of the
Department of Religious Educa
tion.
DR. JOHN H. LEWIS, Dean
of Payne Theological Seminary,
Wilberforce, Ohio, is a native
of Georgia. He received his
B.D. degree from Yale ’13 and
his A M. from Chicago Univer
sity. He served as president of
Morris Brown College 8 years.
He was organizer and first prin
cipal of the $500,000 Dunbar
High School and Junior College
of Little Rock. He was elected
Dean of Payne Seminary in
1944.
Interracial YWCA
Opens in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS. (ANP). The new
interracial County branch of the
St. Louis Y W.C.A. was formally
opened here recently with open
house. The branch was originally
set up by action of the St. Louis
Y.W.C.A. Board of Directors July
7, 1947.
Its staff and membership are
interracial. Mrs. Robert J. Crosse
of Ladue is president; Mrs. C.
Leland Thomas, Webster Groves,
secretary; Uretha Payne, Kinloch
high, president of the Interclub
council; Miss Betty Sprague and
Mrs. Sallie Parham, co-executives,
and Mrs. Godfrey F. Longhofer,
office secretary and receptionist.
A Georgia woman, mother of
two and a former county health
nurse, was swept into office as
a county commissioner over
eleven male opponents on a cam
paign slogan of: “You kiss the
babies, I change their diapers.”
I
Equal Rights
Committee
Named
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ANP)
Four men were named to Mis
souri's Equal Rights committee
last week by Murry K. Thomp
son, speaker of the house. The
committee was recently estab
lished on a resolution by Rep.
Josiah C. Thomas of St. Louis.
This group has been authorized
to study and recommend legisla
tion enforce the part of Section
2 of Article 1 of the state consti
tution which says “that all per
sons are created equal and are
entitled to equal rights and op
portunity under the law.”
Mo. Rep. Joins
3rd Party
ST. LOUIS. (ANP). State Rep.
William Massingale, of the 11th
i Missouri Legislative district, in
| St. Louis and one of the four
i Negro members of the law-mak
: ing body of the state of Missouri,
announced last Sunday his with
' drawal from the Democratic party
in order to join the Progressive
party of Missouri. He spoke be
fore the 11th congressional meet
ing of the Progressive party here
last Sunday afternoon.
He said he has joined the Wal
lace party because both the Re
publican and Democratic parties
are heading toward war through
bi-partisan foreign policies.
Randolph Creates
Two Fiery Camps
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP).
Two views of the recent proposal
by A. Philip Randolph and
Grant Reynolds to lead a “civil
disobedience” movement against
the draft were expressed here
Thursday, one of which took the
form of an announcement that
a south-wide campaign would be
conducted in oppostion to the
movement. Authors of the two
views were Bishop E. J. Cain of
the Church of God district em
bracing Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas, and,Walter White, execu
tive secretary of the NAACP.
White, though not endorsing
Randolph’s movement, called it a
“barometer of the bitterness”
over the issue of discrimination.
He said that he did not have
faith in the effectiveness of the
movement against military regis
tration and draft, but was in ac
cord with the view that “dispro
portion between the burdens and
benefits to the Negro has too long
endured.”
‘I Am An American Day’
Proclaimed May 16th
President Truman has pro
claimed Sunday, May 16, 1948, as
“I Am An American Day.” This
day is set aside to recognize
those young men and women in
America who have attained the
age of twenty-one or who have
been naturalized during the past
year.
In these perlious days it should
be an honor and a privilege of
becoming a citizen of the United
States.
DR. FREDERICK D. JOR
DAN, pastor of historic 8th and
Towne AME Church in Los An
geles, is another candidate for
elevation to the office of bishop.
He has been in the active min
istry for 26 years, many of
which he spent as Dean of the
Bishop Williams School of Re
ligion in Quindaro. Kansas, be
fore his assignment to one of
the largest congregations in the
AME connection.
‘Jim Crow Must Go’
Says Wallace Pamphlet
WASHINGTON. (ANP). “Jim
Crow Must Go,” was the title of
a pamphlet written by Henry A.
Wallace and distributed at the
membership meeting of the Wash
ington committee last week.
“Racial and religious discrimi
nation in America—in any form—
must go,” the pamphlet contin
ued. “Until then our use of the
word ‘democracy’ will ring hollow
throughout the world.
“We must end the widespread
discrimination which bars millions
of Negroes, Jews, Catholics and
foreign born Americans from de
cent jobs.”
College Fund
Seeks $40,000
At Capital
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The
United Negro College fund hopes
to get $40,000 from the Washing
ton area, according to an an
nouncement made by the District
of Columbia committee.
The $1,400,000 which is the na
tional goal this year is to be used
for scholarships, additional teach
ers and improved libraries and
physical plants.
Last year the national campaign
netted $1,032,571 of which the
W a shington area contributed
$25,000.
Harlem GOP’s
Eye Congress
NEW YORK. (NAP). Harold
Burton, Republican leader of the
12th district, and Ludlow Werner,
editor and publisher of the New
York Age, are eyeing the Repub
lican congressional nomination
this year.
Grant Reynolds, former preach
er and now a law student, who
sought unsuccessfully to defeat
Adam Powell two years ago, plans
to try for the nomination again,
but Mr. Reynolds has weakened
his case with the powers that be
in several instances.
Stewardess Board
Gives Breakfast
The Stewardess board No. 1 of
Quinn Chapel church are sponsor
ing a Mother’s Day breakfast in
the baseMent of the church. The
breakfast will last from 7:30 until
10:00 A.M.
DR. JOSEPH GOMEZ
DR. JOSEPH GOMEZ is a graduate o£ Wilberforoe University ’14.
Served as a missionary to Bermuda for several years and on re
turning to America, occupied the pulpits of some of the largest
congregations in the country. In a city-wide testimonial of grati
tude, citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, on April 18 urged Dr. Gomez to
seek election to the Episcopacy of the AME church.