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Volume 2, Number 48 A13130S U*eol« S, Nebraska Thursday, Sept. 2, 1948 — ■ —- I . ^ A ..A . A 111 -u | V I — _ IT W I OV I ^ » ” 4- * ’ * v Arkan __al School to Admit Negro Girl ' Negroes Help Break Crump Machine in Tennessee MEMPHIS. (ANP). For two decades Boss Ed Crump has ruled Tennessee, Memphis and the Democratic party with little or no opposition, but results of the re cent primaries in Tennessee indi cate that the state is due for a change. The man most responsible for this breakdown of the Crump ma chine was Estes Kefauver, demo cratic candidate for the senate who defeated a man personally se lected by Crump and supported by the boss in full page ads in news * papers. * One of the factors in leading Kefauver to victory was the Ne gro vote which switched from Crump to the liberal. Crump was chosen to red-bait Kefauver, a congressman who had opposed the Dies committee and favored a constitutional amend ment calling for the election of the president by popular vote. In newspaper advertisements signed “E. H. Crump,” the boss had the congressman a “Commu nist sympathizer,” a voting pal of radical Rep. Marcantonio of New York and a “defender of the reds.” Although Kefauver does not ap I prove of all the points on Presi dent Truman's civil rights pro gram, the Negroes considered him liberal enough for their votes. They believed that a man who favored every point on civil rights would never be elected. Forming a Negro committee for Ke fauver, they worked for his victory in the primary which is the same as election in Tennessee. He received two-thirds of the colored vote. Louis R. Johnson, president of the Mem phis Negro Chamber of Commerce, said: “We preferred Kefauver to someone who World Church Names Oxnam AMSTERDAM. UP. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. bishop of the Methodist church in the New York area, was unanimously elected one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches Monday. The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, and the four other candidates fo^ the multiple office of president also were elected unanimously. The other four presidents are Pasteur ’ Marc Boegner of the Reformed Church of France; the Archbishop of Thyatetra. I Greece; Dr. S. Germanos; the Archbishop , of Upsala. Sweden. Dr. Erling Eidem. and Dr. T. C. Chao, dean of the school of religion at Yenching university. Peiping. China. Dr. John R. Mott, Methodist ; layman of New York, whom Dr. Oxnam succeeds as president rep resenting the United States, was ' named honorary president. —Courtesy The Lincoln Journal. would have been for everything In the ! : civil rights bill. For such a man could , . not have been elected. We want a man . wbo is as sympathetic to the plea for ; justice for the Negro as he can be and still be elected. We know Kefauver and j believe in him. We didn't want him to de i feat himself.” Kefauver is against federal anti-Iyncn , ing and federal FEPC laws. He believes ! that lynching laws would stir up hate against Negroes and would not be enforce able. He also felt that an FEPC law ; ; would be impractical and unenforceable. He feels that civil rights could be more | easily attained if there were a two party ' system in the south. That i» why he ! advocates the popular election of the ; { president. Charming Little Misses Acquire Many Friends While Visiting H£re Eva, left and Shirley right, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Goodwin of Omaha have been house guests of Mrs. John Miller, 309 So. 20th for the past week. Shirley Ann, 12, is a charming little music maker and a superior pupil in many techniques of the piano. One of her teachers said of her, “she is not only musical but has the industry which must go with it.” She has attained National Honor in the National Federation Festi vals, Junior Division, held in Nebraska in 1948. Eva will begin her music lessons next year. She is a great lovei of books and poems and possesses a dynamic personality. South Africa, Segregation Defiance by High School Pupils CAPE TOWN, South Africa - First signs of active opposition to the apartheid (segregation) regu lations on the suburban trains in the Peninsula are beginning to show themselves. Yesterday the police took the first action since apartheid started, and it was re ported to-day that further action might follow. Meanwhile, passengers report that non-European schoolchildren, encouraged by their teachers, are refusing to leave the coaches set aside for Europeans only. The Minister of Transport, Mr. P. O. Sauer, has received threat ening and protesting letters. On Monday night six non-Eu ropeans and a 16-year-old boy were arrestecLby the Railway Po lice on Cape Town station for dis tributing anti-apartheid leaflets among the rush-hour crowd. The question of prosecutions under the railway regulations concerning the distribution of printed matter on railway property without author ity is being considered. The leaflets, which are being distributed by the National Anti- ; C.A.D. , committee, urge non Europeans to form groups and sit in ‘ the coaches for Europeans only. It is understood that organized resistance on the lines indicated in the pamphlet will be in full swing by the weekend. Thr Cape Arm* August 19, 1948. Major A. Ctlliers, the officer command ing the Railway Police In Cape Town, told a representative of The Argus to-day that the leaflets were also being pasted on the inside of the railway coaches. A passenger to-day reported to a rep resentative of The Argus that classes of non-European children, under the supervi sion of their teachers, were entering “Eu ropean only'' coaches. He had heard ticket-examiners asking the coaches and the teachers had then in terfered, saying that they were entitled to ride where they pleased and instruct ing the children to remsth where they were. * Mr. Sauer has had several let ters. They were all in English and one stated that the power stations would be blown up, the railways broken up and that “blood would flow” in an attempt to “break the apartheid.” All the letters are anonymous. One merely contained a newspa per picture of Mr. Sauer and cer- , tain railway official with ropes round their necks, indicating that they should be hanged. Last night a meeting attended by representatives of 30 organiza tions, including the African Peo ples’ Organization, the Communist party and numerous other Euro pean organizations in the penin sula, was held at which an action committee was elected to devise means of making the regulations impracticable. Ticket-examiners to-day re ported, however, that the scheme was still working smoothly and that no serious incidents had yet been reported. Selection Impartial; No Segregation Practiced First Year Nurse Training MISS MAXINE STITH Miss Maxine Stith is spending a few weeks at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stith of Fairbury, Neb., at the end of her first period of training at Provident Hospital, Chicago. Miss Stith is an honor grad uate of Fairbury high school and began her studies as a profes sional nurse in 1947. She will spend some time in Lincoln be fore returning to Chicago. Named to U.S. Court Position KANSAS CITY, Kan. (ANP). District Judge Arthur J. Mellott last week named a Negro to the post of bailiff crier and messen ger for the U. S. District court in Kansas, the first time a colored person has been named to that job here. The new crier is Charles Allen Green of Kansas City, a former ; band leader, Green, 39, is a former Virginia State college student. As court crier, he will open all ses sions and travel with the judge thruout the state. Judge Mellott was appointed to the federal bench here two years ago by President Truman. Members Honor Pastor This Week j The members and friends of Mt. Zion Baptist church on 12th and F streets will honor the pas tor, the Rev. John S. Favors, this week in fourth anniversary serv- , ices. All churches in Lincoln and one Omaha church will worship at Mt. Zion each night from Au gust 30 through Sunday, Septem ber 5. They will pay their respect to the pastor and his wife for their pastor year and hard work. Salem Baptist church from Omaha with the Rev. J. C. Wade, pastor will be at Mt. Zion Thurs day night. W.S.C.S. Entertains The W.S.C.S. of Newman Meth odist Church was host to approxi mately 50 adults and children at their party, Tuesday evening, Au gust 24, 1948, in Newman Church basement. Games were played and refreshments were served. , LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP). The University of Arkansas Med ical school will admit one Negro student in September without any segreation whatsoever, it was an nounced this week by Dr. H. Clay Chenaut, university vice president in charge of medical education. The colored student will be Edith Mae Irby, 20, of Hot Springs. This is believed to be the first time since Reconstruction a school in this section has ever admitted a Negro student on such a basis. She is the only one accepted of 12 Negro applicants who want ed to enter the medical school. Altogether the school admitted 91 out of 230 applicants from Arkan sas. Students were selected on the basis of scores made oh a medi cal aptitude test. The school had planned to admit only 90 students this fall, but Miss Irby’s mark was so high that the school de cided to accept her. Dr. Chenault said: “She will be a part of her class just like any other member. It is physically impossible in a medical education program to offer any measure of segregation, especially in the preclinical years of a med ical school. “This situation presents quite a problem. But the faculty group completely approved her en trance.” When asked whether this act would be a continued school pol icy, he said: “In accordance with the policy of the university board of trustees, Negro applicants who are bona fide residents of Arkansas may be considered for entrance in the medical school. The board set a precedent when it admitted a Negro to the school of law at Fayetteville last year.” A native of Conway, Miss Irby graduated from Langston high ih Hot Springs in 1944, and received a B.S. degree at Knoxville (Tenn.) college where she majored in pre medical work. Her application and others were handled by an admissions commit tee headed by Dr. Chenaut, as sisted by Dr. Carroll Shukers and Dr. Jeff Banks of the medical school and Dr. M. E. McCaskill of Little Rock. “Our method of selection was impartial,” Dr. Chenaut said. Wallace to Stay At Negro’s Home Henry Wallace’s reservations for Sunday at the Washington Duke Hotel at Durham, N. C., have been canceled. He will stay at the home of a Negro instead, said the secretary, Mrs. Viola Scott, herself a Negro. Frank Grantham, manager of the hotel, said he had informed Miss Price the hotel could take reservations only for white guests and \that Negroes were not per mitted to visit the rooms of whites. Mr. Wallace also has protested to Governor Lane of Maryland that all major Baltimore hotels have denied facilities to the Pro gressive party for a dinner next month. —<a&rte«* Oman* Work! HvraM. «