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.
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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.
