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. Cfp m]- fga -V? ' JL Jr v4 ■ '""J I— TOlldVO 31VI ^ _ A13 I 00 __ Volume 2, Number 47 TVOI MG1 S »u 1 ' v1 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, Aug:. 19, 1948 _ - - - -—— - ■ - ■ - - -■ - ■ ■■■* ■ — NAACP Leaders Predict November Voting Results Negroes Votes May Be Decisive Factors NASHVILLE. (ANP). A pre diction that 4,000,000 Negroes will vote in the 1948 presidential election was made during the closing sessions of the Race Re lations institute at Fisk last week by Henry Lee Moon, direc tor of public relations for the NAACP. This total, Moon said, would be four times the number of colored voters in the 1944 elections. The voting of 1,000,000 Negroes may spell the “emancipation of the white southern voter and the end of the one party system,” he said. . “Increased voting by both Ne groes and poor whites will in the long run result in the election of legislators more responsive to the needs of the southern masses of both races.” Moon did not predict a Negro “bloc” of votes, but felt that col ored votes would be equally di vided among the Republican, Democratic and Third parties. Colored votes can be the decisive factors in the election of several senators and at least 75 repre sentatives in 17 non-southern states, he added. This year's Institute is the fifth an nual meeting to be held at Fisk. It is sponsored by the. American Missionary I association. Students from all over the nation attended the meeting, and more than 40 lecturers and consultants served on the faculty during the three week meeting. 24tli Infantry In Anniversary TOKYO. (ANP). The famed Twenty-fourth Infantry, which was transferred to Japan from Okinawa last year, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the bat tle of San Juan Hill here Thurs day, July 1. Highlight of the celebration was the singing of a commemorative song set to words written by Delos Avery, Chicago Tribune columnist, entitled “San Juan Hill.” Organized in 1869, the regiment saw hard combat in the Spanish American War and participated in the San Juan Hill victory. It went overseas in April, 1942, to serve in the Solomons, Marianas, at Bougainville and Okinawa. Samuel Neal Dies In Local Hospital Samuel Neal, 53, died Friday after an illness of three yearsxHe had been a resident of Lincoln for more than 35 years. Surviving beside his wife, Carrene, 1918 T are a daughter, Mrs. Bobette Rife, Lincoln and a sister, Mrs. Harris of Topeka, Kas. Funeral was held Wednes day at Browns, Rev. R. L. Moody, officiating. Jerry Laws, Broadway’s First Negro Stage Manager, Has An Heir NEW YORK.—Jerry Laws of “Finian’s Rainbow,” considered the first Negro stage manager on Broadway for a major show, is a proud father. His wife pre sented him with an 8-pound son. The singer-actor has starred in a number of musical hits and trav eled extensively with “Porgyand Bess.” __ Announcement A Fish Fry will be given by the Brotherhood of Mt. Zion Baptist Church at the home Mr. James Stewart, 1939 S Street, August 28 at 7:30 p*. m. Baseball Game Honor Bethune WASHINGTON. (ANP). Hon oring Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder-president of the National Council of Negro women on her birthday, the Homestead Grays of Washington and the Clowns of Indiana, will play a benefit base ball game Wednesday, July 14, at Griffith stadium. For the past several years, the Homestead Grays have observed the birthday of Mrs. Bethune with a baseball game in her honor, the proceeds of which go to NCNW for use in the promo tion of its national and interna tional program. Lest We Forget I.est we forget those who are III. Mrs. Ollie Brewer, 319V4 So. 11th. Mrs. Marcella Whitebear, University hos pital, Omaha. Mrs. Irene Mosley, St. Elizabeth hospital. Lawrence Dean, 1018 Rose. Wendell Curtis, 229 V6 No. 9th. Identical Interests Seen In Three Generations Rev. T. T. McWilliams, sr., center, Rev. T. O. Me Williams, jr., and Kiel] The Annual Western Diocese convention of the Church of Christ (Holiness) U. S. A. con vened at Bethel Cathedral, Church of Christ (Holiness), 1302 East Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., July 26-August 1, 1948. Bishop Wm. A. Washington, D. D., host pastor and the Presiding Bishop of the Western Diocese. The Presiding Bishop commis sioned the following: Rev. T. T. McWilliams, Sr., center, Rev. T. O. McWilliams, Jr., left, and Richard McWilliams, right. Rev. T. T. McWilliams was re appointed District Chairman of the Midwest District of the West ern Diocese comprising the fol lowing states: Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Iowa. Rev. McWil liams is making Lincoln his headquarters, and he he works in the Advertising Department of “The Voice.” Rev. T. O. McWilliams, jr. was re-appointed pastor of the Christ Temple Church at Lincoln Baptists9 Youth Canteen to Open Friday9 August 20 Everyone, young and old is in vited to the Grand Opening of the Mt. Zion Canteen, Friday, August 20 from 8:00 to 10:45 p. m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on 12th and F Streets. The purpose of the canteen is to give high school age youth, university age youth and young married couples a chance to en joy wholesome recreation in the church. The canteen will be held every Friday night. The director, Mrs. Zeola Hammond plans to have talent nights, roller skating sessions, games group singing, and other interesting programs. On the agenda for Friday night will be group singing, group games and individual games such as ping pong and Chinese check ers. Plans are under way for “Fun Nights” for adults who are inter ested in good recreation. For the Grand opening, there will be free soft drinks and other snacks will be sold. aril McWilliams, right. and the corresponding Secretary of the Midwest District of the Western Diocese. Richard McWilliams was ap pointed District President of the Sunday school and H. Y. P. U. of the Midwest District. Mrs. Margie Norris, Mrs. Georgia King and Mrs. Zora Adams received appointments as District Missionaries of the C. W. W. W. of the Midwestern Dis trict. The 52nd annual session of the National Convention of the Church of Christ (Holiness) will convene in Washington, D. C., August 15-22, 1948. Bishop Wm. A. Washington is the President of the National Convention of the Church of Christ (Holiness). Bishop Washington will deliver the opening sermon Sunday, Au gust 15th at 3 P. M. Bishop W. E. Holman, Presiding Bishop of the Northeastern Diocese, is host t, bishop. Delegates Sail to Europe For World Council Meet Aim of Conference to Unite Christian People of the WOrld Teachers Want One Standard For All Schools GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (ANP). American schools should offer equal educational opportun ity to all children, John M. Ek lund, newly elected president of the American Federation of Teachers, said after the annual conference of this group last week. The Denver teacher at Oppor tunity school said there should be no double or triple standard for schooling. He also felt that the GI bill of rights benefits should be given to youths drafted in the current army. Eklund said: “The equalization of educa tional opportunity throughout the nation by adequate state legisla tion supplemented by federal aid must demonstrate to the child at the country crossroads, in the in dustrial areas and in the villages that a democratic nation holds for him all that his neighbor gets. “We can never defend double or trii lc standard in school serv ices.” He continued, “If we are to t2ach democracy with full under standing, we must practice it in every area of living.” PoliceSergeant GetsLawSchool Professorship New York Herald Tribune Frederick J. Ludwig, thirty, of 1575 Unionport Road, the Bronx, a police sergeant who worked his way through Columbia Law School while serving as a patrolman, has been appointed a professor at the University of Nebraska college of law, it was announced yesterday at the district attorney’s office. Sergeant Ludwig, said to be the first member of Phi Beta Kappa to join the police force, entered Columbia in 1943 while working -as a patrolman from mid-night to 8 a. m. Although he reportedly averaged three hours of sleep daily during the next two years, he was graduated with honors in 1945 as co-winner of the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize in consti tutional law. Receives Scholarship to Princeton University Miss Jane Molden has been awarded a scholarship to Prince ton University where she will do work on her Masters degree in so cial work. Miss Molden was grad uated from Weeping Water High school in 1944 and received her A.B. degree from Schauffer Col lege in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Molden of Weeping Wa ter and a sister to Howard Mol den of this city. Miss Molden spent Sunday as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Molden. Vaughn Relatives Burn The explosion of a gasoline iron in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Williams, Nicodemus, Kansas, last Friday, resulted in the severe burning of Mrs. Williams, a son 16, and two daughter^ 14 and 17— the older girl fatally. Mrs. Wil liams is a sister of Norval Vaughn, 1985 “S” street. NEW YUulV. tAINt'J. A group of seven delegates of the AME Zion church sailed from New York Aug. 14 aboard the Queen Mary to attend the first assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, Holland. Members of this group for the conference to be held Aug. 22 Sept. 4 were chosen by the AME Zion board of bishops in session at Newburgh, N. Y. Representing this denomination are Bishop B. G. Shaw, Birming ham; Bishop W. J. Wells, Chi cago; Dr. George F. Hall, Char lotte, N. C.. financial secretary; Dr. D. P. Thomas, Chicago, pas tor, Greater Walters church; Mrs. Abbie Clement Jackson, Louis ville, executive secretary, Wom an’s Home and Foreign Mission ary society; the Rev. J. Clinton Hoggard, Younkers, and James W. Eichelberger, secretary of Christian education. More than 500 Americans from 33 denominations will attend the religious conference which will include 40 nations and 150 de nominations. At this conference will be 450 official delegates, 450 alternates and 450 accredited visitors from all over the world. The aim of the conference will be to unite the Christian peoples of the world so that they can work on a common front to solve the world’s problems. The Colored Methodist Episco pal, Bishop J. A. Hamlett, second district, and his wife, Mrs. Lena A. Hamlett; Dr. B. Julian Smith, secretary, board of religious edu cation, Chicago; Dr. E. P. Murchi son, editor, Christian Index, Jackson, Tenn., and Mrs. R. T. Hollis, president, Women’s Con nectional council. Negro Baptists, Dr. J. H. Jack son, Dr. William H. Jernagin, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president, Morehouse college; Dr. Calvin K. Stalnaker, Dr. J. M. Bracy, Dr. R. W. Coleman and Dr. W. W. O. Lewis. Methodist, Bishop . Alexander P. Shaw. African Methodist Episcopal, Bishop and Mrs. D. Ward Nichols and their daughters, Miss War dine Nichols and Miss Susan Nichols; Bishop William A. Foun tain, Bishop Frank Madison Reid, Bishop and Mrs. John A. Gregg, Mrs. Anne E. Heath and Mrs, Alma A. Polk. Philander Smith Gives 60 B.A., 5 B.S. Degrees LITTLE ROCK. (ANP). Sixty five graduates of Philander Smith college won degrees of bachelor of arts and bachelor of science during commencement exercises held on the campus last week. Bachelor of arts degrees went to 60, and bachelor of science to five. Baccalaureate services were conducted by Dr. Albert J. Gat lin, Jonesboro district superin tendent of the Methodist North Arkansas conference, in Wesley Chapel Methodist church. Fol lowing the commencement pro gram, an alumni meeting was held. This class was the largest grad uated in the school's 18 year his tory. The institution has an en rollment of about 1,400.
