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Volume 2, Number 52 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, September 23, 1948 Bunche Heads UN Palestine Group 1 Bernadotte Was A Great World Citizen Count Folke Bernadotte, who last week was killed by an assas sin’s bullet, was one of the great humanitarians of present day Eu rope. His record reveals his in tense world-mindedness and works for a positive peace in the world. A Frenchman who was a leader in Sweden and a truce maker in Palestine, he headed the Swedish Y.M.C.A. and Boy Scout movements. * wmmm a m v«aHi (Courtesy or Journal) COUNT BERNADOTTE. In Paris Sunday, the interna tionalization of Jerusalem was proposed by France after a top UN. official charged Israel with responsibility for the assassination of'Count Bernadotte. The French proposal was made at a special meeting of the UN security coun cil. Dr. Phillip Jessup, of the UN, said, “The assassination was a dastardly act.” He appealed to the Council to intensify its effort to find a Palestine solution as a ■ “living monument to Bernadotte” altho each delegate in turn In sisted that the UN must act now to establish an effective peace in Palestine. The Security Council adjourned after a meeting of about one and one-half hours with lit tle done. The big five represent ative agreed to allow Dr. Ralph Bupche, principal secretary of the Palestine mediation group, to re main in authority in Palestine f'»r the time being. Med School Admits Negro PHILADELPHIA. (ANP). Jef ferson Medical college, one of the oldest and most famous in the country, admitted a Negro youth, 0 the first time since 1908. The student admitted was Elmer J. Taylor, the son of a North Phila delphia plumber. Taylor completed his pre-med ical work at Temple university and applied for medical training at the same college. He was re jected. At the same time, he had filed an application with Jeffer son. Taylor was recommended by a score of physicians and other prominent citizens among whom were Dr. Henry L. Gowens, Dr. William H. Riley Jones, Dr. Tan ner G. Duckry, and the Educa tional Equality league. * Taken to Hospital Mrs. R. L. Moody, 2123 T St., was taken to St. Elizabeth hospital on Thursday of last week and is reported little improved as we go to press. NAACP Names Distinguished JinnerSpeakers Plans are being completed for a Mass Meeting and citizens rally sponsored by the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, according to Robert Moody, local Branch President. The meeting will be gin at 6 p. m. with a turkey din ner following by the speakers at 7 p. m. Tickets for the dinner are on sale and reservations may be made by calling 2-4673. Six speakers are scheduled to give their party’s views on the issues in the current campaign. The symposium is part of an educational program to acquaint citizens with the issues and also to urge them to register and vote. The speakers will be Mr. Arthur Weaver, Republican committee man and city councilman; R. L. Pansing, Republican and city councilman; Mr. Dale T. Weeks, Wesleyan University Political scientist; Rev. John Favors, Pas tor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Omaha school teacher, and Mr. Don Morrow, Lancaster County Young Democrat chief. The public is urged to attend both the dinner and mass meet ing. Mrs. While Named Mercy Douglass Nurse Head PHILADELPHIA. (ANP). Mrs. Viola Terrell White, former di rector of education at John A. Andrew hospital, Tuskegee in stitute, and graduate of Homer G. Phillips School of Nursing, St. Louis, was appointed head <?f nurses at the n e w 1 y-merged Mercy-Douglass hospital last week. Other new faculty members in cluded Thelma B. Johnson, in structor in nursirfg arts; Alva M. Madison, surgical supervisor, and Ann Elizabeth Chism, operating room supervisor. SAC Plans For November Election Monday night, September 13, the Lincoln Social Action Coun cil held its monthly meeting., Among items of business before the Council was a report on Fair Employment legislation in East ern states and how it may best serve our own state. A letter writing campaign is still under way. Rev. Gordon Lippitt, SAC President, also appointed Dr. L. E. Aylesworth as chairman of a committee to investigate the views of local and minor candidates on the November ballot and it will report in late October. At the next meeting of the Council, scheduled for October 4, Mrs. Prince of the Nebraska State Board of Control will speak. Neiv Jersey School Bias Disappearing TRENTON, N. J. (ANP). Dr. John H. Bosshart, state commis sion of education, disclosed here last week that racial segregation in schools within the state is on the decline. In a report to the state board of education, he said that of 52 schools which allowed segregation last year, 30 have taken “major steps” toward end ing that practice, and 10 have taken “partial steps.” His report showed that eight districts were forced to accept segregation because of the racial pattern of the population, but cited that the policy could not be considered a violation of the state constitution. He reported that four school districts claimed there was no segregation being prac ticed in their areas, so a move is being made to halt such practices. —Courtesy The Lincoln Journal THE URBAN LEAGUE GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB gave the first double assembly of the Fall term at Lincoln High school Wednesday, Sept. 15. They rendered several spirituals in superb fashion. The out standing number was probably a solo by Winifred (Peaches) Win ston who sang “The Swallows” in her own inimitable style. The entire program was recorded for future use in English literature classes this year and pictures were taken for the 1949 Links. Their next appearance will be tomorrow at the Fall Opening of the Urban League where “Music in the Air” is the theme. Pictured above, back row (1. to r.): Mary Collier, Marian Bradford, Gladys Bradford, Winifred Winston, Barbara Moody and Birdie Powell. Second row: Jeanette Venegar, Bettie Hose Huston, Loretta McWilliams, Vonna Finley, Ionna Adams and Doris Powell. Front row: Phyllis Holcomb, Betty Bowman, Beverly Holcomb and Marilyn Bowen. Not shown are Dorothy Green, Odessa Delaney, Jeanne Malone, Delores Bowen and Susie May White Hall. Responsibility For Official's Death Laid On Israel Gov't Following a special meeting of the U.N. Security Coun cil Sunday, Dr. Ralph Bunche, principal secretary of the Palestine mediation group, was allowed to remain in author ity in Palestine by the big five, for the time being at least. It was Bunchfe, an American, who had earlier charged Israel with responsibility for the assassination of Count Berna dotte. The charge against the Israeli government was made in an official protest to Foreign Minister Moshe Shertoa. DR. RALPH BUNCHE. Scholarship Winner Returns From France PITTSBURGH. (ANP). Mrs. Marie Carter Hayes, music teach er and winner of a scholarship to study the piano abroad this summer, returned home last week after a ten week stay on the con tinent. She studied piano at Fountain bleu with a number of other scholarship students under Mile, de L. Ecluse, Prof. Jean R. Dupre and Robert Cassadesus, world famous pianist. Her stay in Europe was char acterized and cut short by hun ger. She traveled to many coun tries including England, Switzer land, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and Italy. In all those places, everybody was hungry, she no ticed. Her travels and those of other students covered 19,552 miles. ^ » Most of. the traveling was by air route. She went to Denmark to see Anne Browne recently married to a Danish architect, but missed the newlyweds. In Paris she spent several days with Josephine Baker who showed her the town. The most beautiful spots in France, she said, were the Riveria, Nice and Monte Carlo. Her music school in Pittsburgh was the first Negro school in the city to become accredited. Entertains Students The Women’s Society for Chris tian Service at Newman Method ist church was hostess to six teen students of Lincoln univer sities Sunday at an old fashion basket dinner. The entertainment, which has become an annual af fair at the church, was apparent ly enjoyed very much by those present. Mrs. Fauntella Baker, chairman, and Mrs. Brevy Miller, president, welcomed the stu dents. Charles Goolsby responded. The Rev. Wm. A. Greene is the pastor. “Therefore, the safety of Ber nadotte and that of his lieuten ant,” said Bunche, “was the re sponsibility of the provisional government of Israel, whose armed forces and representatives control and administer the Jeru salem area.” “This act,” he said, “constitutes a breach of the truce of the utmost gravity, for which the provisional government of Israel must assume full responsibility.” A stocky, athletic-looking man with an easy smile, Bunche has been a key figure for the past seven months on the U. N. Pal estine commission in setting up the unprecedented new nations in the Holy Land. As principal sec retary of the commission, he exe cuted its decisions and directed its staff. Dr. Bunche — he holds a „ Ph.D. from Harvard university — has been working with the Pales tine problem since it was brought ! before U. N. last year. He served then in an important post with the U. N. special committee on Palestine, whose report was the basis of the decision to partition the Holy Land. However, Dr. Bunche’s regu lar assignment is in what he calls his outstanding specialty—prob lems of non-self-governing people. He is director of U. N.’s division of trusteeship, which deals with trust territories. Ever since he was an under graduate (and an outstanding bas ketball, football and baseball player) at the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles, Ralph Bunche has been studying ,inter national relations and colonial ad ministration. When he was work ing on his advanced degrees, how ever, he explored a new field in political science by actually study ing the cultures and lives of co lonial peoples appraising the im pact of colonial policies on them. The result was a blending of an thropology with political science. His studies as both student and teacher took him to far corners of the earth to Africa, the Southeast Asia and Europe. In 1928, he be I came head of the Political Science j Department at Howard University i in Washington, from where he has been on leave of absence for six years. Dr. Bunche left Howard to work in the United States Office # of Strategic Services and later m the Department of State and par ti c i p a t e d in all of the pre paratory conferences of the United Nations. He then joined the U. N. Secretariat. Improved After Stroke Mrs. Mattie Saunders 2226 R Street was reported much im proved today after suffering what the doctor termed a “serious stroke” on Thursday September 9.