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Volume 2, Number 33 _Lincoln 3. Nebraska Thursday, May 27, 1948 DR. I. A. DERBIGNY Administrative dean of Tus kegee institute, author of a book, “General Education in the Negro College,” published re cently by Stanford University press. He has been Tuskegee’s administrative dean since 1936. He formerly was head of Talla dega’s chemistry department and also the»science department at Virginia State college. Courier Reporter Newsman of Year WASHINGTON. (ANP). Lem uel Graves, jr., Washington cor respondent for The Pittsburgh Courier, was selected newsmen’s newsman of the year by the Capi tol Press Club. His citation was presented by the club president, Herbert Hene gan, at the club’s annual dinner. Fr. Flanagan of ‘Boys9 Town9 Dies Rev. E. J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town in Nebraska, died after being stricken with a heart ailment, in the Army Hospital in Berlin. The famed Nebraska priest, who would have been 62 years old on July 13, was taken suddenly ill here while on an inspection tour of German youth facilities at the invitation of the U. S. Army. Boys Town, on the outskirts of Omaha, was founded by Father Flanagan in 1917 and has obtained international recognition with his credo: “There is no such thing as a bad boy.” First Jail Term In KKK Flogging R. B. Ellison, who admitted that he flogged two men “in an attempt to do good,” was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Ellison, identified as a Ku Klux Klansman by other “Black Raid er” defendants, pleaded guilty in the flogging of Joe C. Berry and Roy Gravitt. He asked for leniency “to show the women and children in this state that someone is interested in their welfare.” He accused both flogging victims of having failed to support their families. Judge Bond Aymand gave him the maximum sentence allowed. Six other defendants await trial later this week. An eighth com mitted suicide after connecting the whipping with the KKK. Campaigns in Spanish LOS ANGELES. (ANP). Hen ry A. WaUace, third party can didate for president, campaigned in Spanish Sunday, May 16 in a rally for Mexican-Americans and other Spanish speaking peoples, at Lincoln Park stadium. WarrenUrges GOP to Back Civil Rights SACRAMENTO, Cali f.—Gov. Earl Warren recently gave the Nation his platform as a Repub lican Presidential candidate—put ting civil rights up in front. In a nationwide radio broad cast (NBC) the Governor, deplor ing “vote-catching phrases,” out lined what he thought should be in the GOP platform and listed as No. 1: “A law for all men—a law un der which everyone may enjoy the full exercise or rights of American citizenship.” Negroes in Army Outnumber Navy^s Chicago Tribune Pres* Service. WASHINGTON.—Official Army and Navy records revealed that the Army long has enlisted more Negroes than the Navy. The records disclose that the Army has 250 times as many Ne gro officers on duty as the Navy. The Army’s officers are in command of troops, whereas the Navy’s Negro officers do not com mand ships. The Army had more than a thousand times as many Negro officers during the war as the Navy. The Army has far more Negro enlisted personnel than the Navy. The records show the Army (including Air Force) had 701,678 'Negro enlisted men during the war peak. This has dropped to 53,489 for the Army and 25 thou sand (including officers) for the Air Force. The Navy has 17,787 enlisted men. Trip Cancelled; Segregation Policy NEW YORK.—Fifty-one New York schoolboys will be treated to a ball game instead of a two day trip to Washington—because four of them allegedly would have been “segregated” in the national capital. The boys, chosen as outstand ing traffic “safety patrolmen” at public and parochial schools, were to have represented New York at the observance of School Safety Patrol Day. William J. Gottleib, president of the Automobile Club of New York, said he was canceling the trip because “practices of segre gation” would have isolated four Negro boys from the group. No Racial Discrimination at Boston For Big Methodist Conference B O S T O N.—Negro Methodists enjoyed lull and complete repre sentation at the quadrennial Gen eral Conference of the Methodist Church, with the four active Ne gro Bishops taking an active part in all executive and administra tive affairs of the sessions, and with delegates holding down posts on important legislative commit tees throughout the session. There was no racial discrimina tion in selecting the presiding Bishop Alexander P. Shaw of Bal timore, presided over the session of May 1. The conference in creased salaries of Bishops from $7,000 to $9,000 annually. Race delegates came from every ' section of the country. 1 BISHOP SHAW. John Elder, 99, Dies; Ex-Barber John Elder, 99, 2001 Vine, a retired Lincoln barber, died at his home. He was a resident of Lincoln for the past 25 years and was a member of the Christ Tejpple church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Harris of New York City, Mrs. Allie Harding of San Diego, Calif:, Mrs. Jessie Freeman of Omaha and Mrs. Ida Belle McWilliams of Kansas City, Kas.; four grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services were at Um bergers, Rev. Trago McWilliams, jr., a grandson, officiated. —Courtesy of Journal. The Ghost Of Bilbo! Rankin Would Exterminate All Negroes WASHINGTON. (ANP). The only four possible solutions of the race question are extermina tion, deportation, amalgamation, or segregation, according to Mis sissippi’s Representative John E. Rankin. Irate over a resolution recently passed by a group of Bishops ask ing that he be expelled from Congress, Rankin made the above statements on the House floor to reaffirm his position on the civil rights program. He charged “communist agita tors” induced the churchmen to pass such a resolution. High School Graduations Lincoln Miss Ona Wagner, supervisor of adult education, the Lincoln Pub lic schools, announced that the graduation exercise will include approximately 70 students. Among the graduating students are Mrs. Carrie King and Mrs. Zeola Ham monds. The graduation ceremony will take place June 8th, 8 p. m., 720 So. 22nd, street in the Public School Auditorium. Weeping Water Miss Jackie Molden was grad uated from the high school in Weeping Water, Neb., May 20, in a class of 23 seniors. Mrs. A. E. Simms and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Molden attended the graduation exercise. YWCA Secretary Retires; Spends 4 Years on Campus Active Worker in Social and Civic Organizations; Leader in S.A. c. —Courtesy Lincoln Journal. MISS MILDRED TAYLOR Miss Mildred Taylor, Y.W.C.A, executive secretary is retiring from the University branch after four years of guiding Nebraska co-eds. Miss Taylor received her A. B. from Cotner College and her M. A. in sociology from the University of Nebraska. During the war, she served several large U.S.O. installations on the West Coast before coming to the U. of N. campus. During her tenure, the Y.W.C.A. has done much to fur ther interracial understanding and her loss will be greatly felt in that organization. She has also been active in thje Lincoln Social Action Council, which did much to open Muny pool and make the job-housing survey in 1947. LUL to Sponsor Annual Picnic Monday, May 31st, (Memorial Day) the Lincoln Urban League will sponsor its annual picnic at Antelope Park. Fun for all is forecast, according to Mrs. Ro berta Molden, picnic committee member. Trips to the zoo are planned for boys and girls up to nine years of age. Races are scheduled for boys and girls from nine to fourteen in the morning. Prizes will be given to the win ners. Games for older people will begin at 3:30 p. m. At 5:30 the Independants will play another team, unnamed at present and at 7:30 the girls will play the boys. Free food will be served at 6:30. Vacation Bible School In Need Of Teachers Mrs. Basilia Bell, who will di rect the interdenominational Va cation Bible School at the Urban League June 21st, has issued a call for teachers, supervisors and assistants to fill a few vacancies in the VBS staff. Persons who are able to contribute two hours in the mornings are requested to call Mrs. Bell, 5-5531, A very interesting and complete program has been outlined for the school and all boys and girls are invited to attend. Troop 60 Soon To Have Camporee Iatan section of the Boy Scouts of America held a tournament of scouting at the Urban league, May 17. The flag ceremony, at the opening of the ceremonies, was conducted by Troop 60. The tour nament featured knot-tying, rope climbing, fire making, signaling, first aid and distance judging. The section is having a cam poree at Camp Minis-Kuya on Fri day and Saturday, May 28-29. The camporee is conducted to give scouts an opportunity to apply the things they have learned about the out-of-doors in their troop meetings. Mr. Joseph W. Adams is the scoutmaster. —Subscribe to the Voice— Go. Negroes Go Back to The Farms ATLANTA. (ANP). The trek is back to the farm for Georgia Negroes, the U. S. Department of Commerce figures revealed thia week. From 1940 to 1945 the number of non-white farmer op erators increased from 59,132 to 70,411. More money is the cause for this increase. According to the regional office more white ten ant farmers are becoming land owners, too. Robeson Plans Civil Rights March on Capital NEW YORK. (ANP). A na tionwide march on Washington for civil rights is being planned by the Council on African affairs. Chairman Paul Robeson an nounced. “Since the President has shown no evidence of stepping in and im plementing civil rights legisla tion, Negroes as well as other minorities have decided it wai time to tell the President how they felt about things,” the fa mous singer said. Cooperating with Robeson and the Council are Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, director of special research for the NAACP, and the Rev. John H. Johnson. Robeson said that this march on the capital has no connection with the Wallace campaign. Taylor Refuses to Speak Before a Jim Crow Audience OKLAHOMA CITY. (ANP). Sen. Glen Taylor, third party candidate for vice president, can celed a speech here because of a law thft segregates people at pub lic meetings at the Municipal au ditorium. He and his running mate, Henry A. Wallace, do not speak before Jim Crow audiences. Credit “Discipline, What is it?” ap j pearing in The VOICE for May i 20, was written by Mrs. William > B. Davis.