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i - . - . .... ■ • i. *£_... k • Volume 2, Number 48 30,000' , ,rtt* /n South Carolina The Voice Scholarship Fund's New Look Has Great Appeal Will Aid Students in Effort to Meet Requirements at Bryan Memorial Hospital With the doors of Bryan Me morial Hospital now open to Negro students, The Voice assifines a new responsibility of assisting girls who may wish to become nurses and who may find it difficult to pay tlfteir entrance fee. Of the four girls who have expressed a desire to take advantage of the opportunity The Voice will assist two of them and has already made plans to secure funds. £•- The girls will be selected ac cording to their scholastic stand ing as well as requirements neces sary for entrance at the Methodist hospital. The board prefers that two girls would enter training at the same time. Funds are being raised through a cook book project which is being compiled by Mrs. John Miller who is in charge of the Household Hint column for The Voice. Recipes which have been used in The Voice and other special ones are being tested and ap proved by Mrs. Miller. The book promises to be at tractively bound and a must in • every home. Socialist Holds Convention NORMAN THOMAS. Courtesy of the Lincoln Journal. Norman Thomas, quadrennial socialist party candidate for president, addressed a state convention sponsored by Ne braskans for Norman Thomas at 4 p. m. Sunday at the state fairgrounds 4-H building. The convention was held in an attempt to secure 750 signa tures of eligible voters so that t Thomas and his running mate, Prof. Tucker F. Smith, could go on the Nebraska presidential ballot. The signatures secured were far short of the requirement. Officer to Serve hi Army’s Public Information Division WASHINGTON. (ANP). First Lt. Robert E. Smith, Jr., of Jack sonville, Fla., has been recently assigned to a one month tour of duty with the public information division of the army in the press section. He will, assist 1st Lt. 4} John T. Martin, Jr., in the Negro interest unit. A reserve officer, Lt. Smith graduated from Howard univer sity in 1946, and is now a sopho more in Howard’s school of den tistry. Music in the Air Show Theme The annual Fall Opening at the Lincoln Urban League will be September 24 sponsored bj the Urban League Glee Club with Mrs. Eugenia Brown directing. Assisting Mrs. Brown will be Mrs. Sara Walker, Mrs. Roberta Molden and Mr. Clyde W. Ma lone. The program will consist of lo cal and out of town talent with many surprises in store for the audience including duo piano se lections by both local and out of town artists. The girls of the Glee Club will be in formal attire with special lighting arangements with Mr. Jewell Kelley in charge. Refreshments will be served at the close of the program. The public is invited. No ad j mission will be charged. Editor Returns From Vacation BY DOROTHY GREEN. The Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare returned Thursday evening after a three week vacation in San Diego, Calif., where he spent time with relatives whom he had not seen for 23 years. Being a minister and newspaper editor he 'mixed business with pleasure. He did not only attend WmMsMBi REV. SHAKESPEARE. several church meetings at Bethel A. M. E. Church, but he had the pleasure to be guest speaker Sun day, Aug. 15 at a special men’s day program. Another of the highlights of his trip was that he visited two of San Diego’s leading newspaper plants—The Lighthouse and The Comet. One of the things he liked best was the fishing on the Pacific ocean. Rev. Shakespeare also spent some time in Mexico. William Broden Speaks At Doane College, Crete William Broden, liberal arts junior at the University of Ne braska was speaker on program at Doane College at Crete Thurs day, August 18. His subject was “Democracy in Its Responsibility Superintendent of Schools Announces School Opening Courtesy of the Lincoln Journal. GILBERT S. WILLEY. Registration Starts Aug. 30 Lincoln public schools will open for all pupils on Tuesday, Sept. 7, Gilbert S. Willey, superintend* ent of schools has announced. Mr. Willey announced the fol iowing information fo« parents of children of school age: Time of opening—Pupils in ele mentary schools will report at 9 a. m. Tuesday. Junior and senior high pupils will report at 8:40 a. m. Registration—It will not be nec essary for pupils in the kindergar ten thru the sixth grade inclu sive to register before Sept. 7. Pupils new to the city who are planning to enter junior or senior Negro Vote Important in Elections LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP). The Negro vote in the state of Arkansas was vital in various elections throughout the state last week. It helped elect the new gov ernor; it elected several sheriffs, and in the town of Morrilton, the whites thought enough of the Negro vote to keep the Negroes from voting. The election of McMath for governor was definitely decided by the colored vote. Counties < heavily populated by Negroes 1 gave the newly elected governor a margin of more than 7,200 while his margin of victory was only slightly over 7,000. If a few of the colored votes had switched to Holt, McMath could not have won. In a typical county, Jefferson, Pine Bluff reports that Garland Brewster was re-elected by a wide margin. This campaign was marked by frantic efforts of his opponents to grab the colored vote. Negroes, however, recog nized Brewster’s fair treatment toward them during his past term, and voted for him to serve again. In Morrilton, the story was dif ferent, according to Frank W. Smith, superintendent of the Con way County Training school for Negroes. Although 151 Negroes were eligible to vote in Howard township, whites led by Sammy Carl Plummer, Democratic party leader, stopped them at the polls. According to Smith* when he and other citizens came to vote, Plummer said: “We are not letting any colored vote today.” When the Negroes suggested going in he added, “If you attempt to go in there I doubt that you will ever get in there." “We seem to be without protec tion from this type of disfran chisement,” Smith said, “but if protection is to be had under the constitutions of Arkansas and the United States, we are going to in situte the means of finding that protection immediately.” He said the polls were blocked by belligerent white bystanders. to the World.” The Rev. R. Mc Nutt, in charge at the Methodist Student house, accompanied him and spoke on Minority Groups. high schools should register at their respective schools from 1 p. m. to 3 p. m., Monday, Aug. 30, thru Friday, Sept. 3. New high school pupils should bring tran scripts of credits earned in other schools. Home bound classes—Instruction for homebound pupils will be of fered in all grade levels for which there is a demand. Deaf and Hard of Hearing— The class for deaf and bard of hearing pupils will be housed at Prescott school, 20th and Har wood. Huskerville—Pupils living in Huskerville will be transported by bus to schools in the city. Kinder garten, grades one and two will attend Lake View school; grades three thru six, Bancroft school; junior high, Whittier school; sen ior high, Lincoln high school. Additional information may be had by calling 2-1400. Members of the teaching staff will report for duty for the week beginning Aug. 30. They will get their classrooms ready and attend several professional meetings dur ing the week. A meeting for principals, direc tors and supervisors will be held Aug. 31. The Lincoln Teachers association will sponsor a recep tion for new teachers at 3 p. m. Wednesday. Thirty committees appointed to study instruction problems will meet Thursday fore noon. A general teachers’ meet ing will be held at 10 a. m. Friday. College Instructor To Teach in China JACKSON, Miss (ANP). A member of the summer school staff of Jackson college, Dr. Aguinaldo Lanier, on leave from Fisk university for 1948-49, re ceived a grant to teach in China, last week. The Board of Foreign scholar ship under the Fulbright act has given him a grant to be a visiting professor in foreign languages and literature at the Tsing Hau university in Peking. He was in vited by his Dartmouth class mate, Dean Quenton Pan of the Chinese school. Dr. Lanier will teach at Jack son college until he goes to China. Lanier high school in Jackson vns named after his father. - COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP). More J than 30,000 Negroes voted last week in the South Carolina demo cratic party primaries without in cident. This was the first time Negroes had the ballot in the par ty primary since Reconstruction days. Although James H. Hinton, president of the state NAACP “recommended” that the colored voters cast their ballots for cer tain candidates, results reveal that they did not vote in bloc. One candidate, theoretically favored by the Negro group, Ne ville Bennett, failed miserably in the senatorial race won by the in cumbent, Sen. Burney R. May bank. Bennett did not even poll 30,000 votes, the estimated num ber of Negro ballots cast. In Cherokee county, however, a Negro supported candidate for the house won easily over Probate Judge Roy C. Cobb. Another “rec ommended” candidate, Rep. John J. Riley, lost in his attempt for re-election. The two losers, Ben nett and Riley, said that they knew nothing of alleged Negro support. Only one incident was reported during the election period. Two crosses were supposed to have been lighter near Aiken. Hinton said the crosses flamed, but the Aiken county sheriff, Price Fal low, said they did not burn. The Negroes gained their right to participate in the primaries when Judge J. Waties Waring, the son of a confederate soldier and native of South Carolina, ruled in the federal district court last month that the democratic party had to enroll Negroes on their books. In the past the party has oper ated as a “private” club which excluded Negroes from member ship. Speaking of the election in gen eral, Hinton said that colored peo ple “were very appreciative” of the treatment accorded them at the polls. Savannah Gets First Colored Case Worker SAVANNAH, Ga. (ANP). Sa vannah got its first colored case worker for children last week when Miss Pearl Lavender was appointed to work in the Child Placement services, Miss Maude M. Butler, director, announced. A native of Savannah, Miss Lavender recently earned her master’s degree in social work at the Atlanta University School of Social work. She earned her A.B. at South Carolina state college, and graduated from Beach high school here in 1942. She will work with Negro chil dred up to the age of 16 years. Men’s Club Gives Fish Fry The Men’s Club of Mount Zion Baptist church is giving a fish fry Saturday, August 28 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart, 1939 S Street from 5:00 p. m. until all dinners are sold out. Mr. Robert Letcher is presi dent of this fine organization and would like other men to join. Plans are ]fti tne very near future to have a men’s chorus.