Volume 2, Number 38 Lincoln 3, Nebraska x Thursday, July 1, 1918
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,>rd Ballot Puts
Dewey Over Top;
Unanimous Choice
The Republican National Con
vention balloted unanimously to
give Governor Dewey his second
chance to be its standard-bearer
in 1948.
Governor Earl Warren of Cali
fornia will make an ideal run
ning mate for Governor Dewey.
The two men are alike in many
respects. Both men fought their
way up the hard way by racket
busting. For the first time in
1 quite a few years, the republican
party stands a good chance of
occupying the white house.
Lutheran Synod
Admits Churches
To Mission Board
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Mis
sion board supervision wras ex
tended to Negro churches of the
denomination by the southeastern
district of the Lutheran church,
Missouri synod, during'its sixth
annual meeting at Christ Luth
eran church here last week. About
150 delegates from churches in
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Geor
gia and the District of Columbia,
approved the action.
In the past, Negro congregations
have been under the direction of
the synodical conference, St.
Louis, but with the changeover,
direction, supervision and expan
sion of the churches will become
a matter for the mission and
church extension board of the
district. The church change was
requested by the conference mis
sionary board and affects more
than 3,000 members in 14 con
gregations.
Miss Malone Receives
Y.W.C.A, Scholarship
Miss Jeanne Malone, student
leader of the University Y. W.
C. A.’s group “Teaching the Bible
to children” has been awarded a
scholarship for students in sum
mer service project sponsored by
the national student Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A. in New York
City. Miss Malone will teach
English to children with a lan
guage handicap due usually to
their foreign background. She
will assist in the leadership of
street play at the Labor temple.
She left Thursday evening and
will serve on this^ project for a
period of six weeks. The scholar
ship was provided thru the ad
visory board of the University
Y. W.' C. A. of which Mrs.
Chauncey Smith is the chairman
for 1948-49. The award was
made by a committee in New
York. Miss Malone is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ma
lone.
Mrs. Wallace Honored
By §1. Louis Women
ST. LOUIS. (ANP). Mrs. Henry
_ Wallace, wife of the third party
candidate for President, was the
guest of honor at a special lunch
eon June 19 at the Kingsway hotel.
Mrs. Wallace stopped in St. Louis
for a two day visit June 18 and 19.
Chairman of the luncheon, spon
sored by the women of the Pro
gressive party of Missouri was
Mrs. Fannie Cook, author. Main
speaker was Mrs. Margaret Har
ris, chairman of the sponsoring
group.
—Courtesy of The Journal.
GOV. DEWEY
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—Courtesy oi The Lincoln Journal.
GOV. WARREN
Wiley, Huston
Will Not Merge
This
AUSTIN, Tex. (ANP). Persist
ent but unfounded rumors that
the merger of Wiley and Samuel
Huston college, two educational
institutions under the supervision
of the Methodist church, will be
consummated at once, and the
merged institution located at
Dallas, received a blow here this
week when a joint report re
leased by Dr. M. S. Davage, sec
retary of Methodist Education
institutions for Negroes and Bis
hop R. N. Brooks, indicated that
the work of the two institutions
will not be interrupted in the
near future.
The report reads:
“There is no connection what
ever between the strike situation
which prevailed at Wiley and the
vote for the merging of the two
institutions. In any event, each
institution will continue its work
and the merger, if agreed upon,
will not be consummated for
several years. The only objec
tive in the merging of the two
institutions is to concentrate the
work of the Methodist Board of
Education into one large and bet
ter institution so that the one
institution can do a better quality
of work than two separate insti
tutions.”
Work at Samuel Huston col
lege is proceeding with renewed
enthusiasm and plans are being
made to accommodate the largest
enrollment in the history of the
college when school opens in
i September.
Winifed Winston
Recital Appeals
To Listeners
A group of music-loving Lin
colnites that gathered last Fri
day night to hear a song recital
by Miss Winifred Winston, found
the youthful coloratura an artist
of no mean talent and ability,
and possessing a charming per
sonality. The recital, presented
on the occasion of her 15th
birthday, gave many who had
not heard her since her first
birthday recital two years ago,
an opportunity to mark the im
provement of her interpretive
technique. Miss Winston en
chanted her listeners from the
beginning and they remained
enthusiastic to the last note. The
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.
K. Winston, 1921 “S,” she has
been a pupil of Miss Lucille
Robbins’ voice studio for several
years.
Mrs. Eugenia Brown, who ac
companied her, did a very cred
ible job at the piano. The pro
gram was as follows:
I’ve Been Roaming.Horn
Nymphs and Shepherds.Purcell
Rose. Softly Blooming.Bpohr
Bid Me Discourse (Shakespeare). .Bishop
Ave Maria .Mascagni
An adaptation to the beautiful Inter
mezzo from the opera, Cavalleria
Rusticana.
Whither .Schubert
My Sweet Repose.Schubert
Alleluia .Mozart
Florian's Song .Oodard
To Spring .Gounod
My Johann .Grieg
The Swallows .Dell’ Acqua
Suffer Little Children.Hausman
May Morning . Denza
A Brown Bird Singing......Wood
I»ve’8 Echo .Newton
Carmen Waltz Song.Wilson
The presentation was sponsored
by the Mary Bethune Literary
and Art Club.
NAACP Aids Nation,
Not Negroes Alone,
Says IFi// Alexander
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ANP).
The NAACP is important to
America because it helps the na
tion as a whole rather than the
Negro alone, Will W. Alexander,
member of the Rosewald found
ation, told members of the NAACP
at its national convention here
June 24.
“Your battle, I remind you
again, is not primarily for a min
ority of our population but for
the integrity of this nation which
with all its faults holds so much
hope for the world.”
Of the supreme court decision
he said:
“The decision of the supreme
court denying the protection of
our courts to restrictive covenants
is a major victory, not only for
Negroes and other minorities, but
for American democracy. It opens
the way for a new spirit in Amer
ican community development and
will make it vastly easier to solve
our perplexing housing problem.”
Boston Graduate Wins
Two Scholarships to Uni.
BOSTON. (ANP). Miss Alfaret
ta Pierce, honor graduate of Ar
lington high, received three
awards including two scholarships
to Boston university last week.
One of her scholarships was
from the school itself, and the
other came to her because of her
high scholastic record. She also
won the E. Nelson Blake memo
rial award for her character, be
havior and scholastic record.
LOUIS WINS IN 11TH
ROUND; WILL RETIRE
Champ Bows Out
In Good Shape and
In Victorious Style
Last Friday night Joe Louis
fought one of the most difficult
fights of his career when he
tangled with Jersey Joe Walcott.
Walcott, an old-timer at box
ing, puzzled Joe Louis for a
while. Louis soon discovered an
opening and came in for a knock
out in the eleventh round.
Joe Louis emerges as a great
champion and international
sportsman. He held the heavy
weight boxing title for eleven
years and will go down in his
tory as one of the “greats” in the
boxing world.
Although Joe Louis has met
fighters of all kinds in the ring he
has met one foe he has yet to
overcome, according to a story he
wrote in the August issue of
Everybody’s Digest.
He wrote: “There’s one fight
I’ve always wanted: that’s a
crack at Jim Crow . . . That the
one match I’d like best. Just to
get Jim Crow cornered in the
ring. And to get in one good sgck.
It might be another one of my
lucky nights.
“But I guess it can’t be done
that way. Prejudice is a funny
thing. You can’t knock it out of
people’s hearts and minds with
KO punches. It’s buried deep in
side.”
In this article Louis tells of his
many experiences with discrimi
nation. Although Joe was heavy
weight champion of the world to
many whites he was just another
inferior Negro.
Gregory Peck for
\egro 6Gentleman’s
Agreement5
CHICAGO. (ANP). “The great
est film I can think of would be
one on the Negro as frank as
‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ was for
Jews,” says Gregory Peck in July
Negro Digest. “It’s got to be done!
And it would carry even more im
pact than ‘Gentleman’s Agree
ment’.”
He knew about the race prob
lem all his life, the Academy
Award winner explains, but had
never actively fought against
prejudice and bigotry until his re
cent role in Darryl Zanuck’s epic.
Peck then toured the south and
spent a vacation in Haiti.
“I felt tension, fear, conflict
oozing through me,” Peck declares,
“and now I realize what’s got to
be done.
“I’m just an ordinary guy. I
don’t know all the answers. But
I’m pretty certain of this. . . prej
udice and what causes it has to
go! Talk it out, legislate it out,
educate it out with books, news
papers, radio, films. But one way
or another, it’s up to every last
one of us to assume responsibility
for the welfare of our fellow
men.”
Denied Franchise
ATLANTA, Ga.—The first Ne
gro candidate for a major political
office in this area since Recon
struction Days was denied a bal
lot in Bibb County’s Democratic
primary contests.
Look over the ads and see how
many you are patronizing.
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—Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
JOE LOUIS.
CORE Against
Military Bias
In the Services
NEW YORK. (ANP). At its na
tional convention here June 19-20,
CORE, the Congress of Racial
equality, voted to endorse the
civil disobedience program advo
cated by A. Philip Randolph to
combat segregation in the mili
| tary services.
CORE has elected national of
ficers, approved a national advis
ory committee and voted to have
' its national name, local name
(Committee of Racial Equality)
and initials copy righted.
Flans for two interracial work
shops, in Washington and Los An
geles, were also presented at this
meeting. These workshops, oper
ated along with the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, will train members
in non-violent direct action
against Jim Crow and segregation.
A three day conference® pre
ceded the convention. At these
meetings panel groups discussed
actions and methods used by local
groups in their activities.
Delegates hailed from New York, Chi*
cago, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleve
land, Columbus, Cincinnati, Yellow Springs,
Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Min
neapolis, St. Paul and Erie, Pa.
California Graduates
First Negro in
Civil Engineering
BERKELEY, Calif. (ANP).
The University of California here
had its first Negro graduate in
civil engineering in the 1948
June class. The graduate is
Howard P. Grant of Los Angeles.
Grant now works for San
Francisco county as junior civil
engineers. During the war he
served as an engineering drafts
men in the army air forces.
At California he earned two
letters in basketball and served
as president of Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity. Before the war he at
tended U. C. L. A. where he
served as president of the Uni
versity Negro club.
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