Stern Gang Threatens
Dr. Bunche In Israel
HAIFA, Israel. (ANP). The life
of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, neVHy
appointed United Nations media
tor in the Palestine controversy,
* has been threatened by the Stem
gang here, it was reported from
reliable sources last week.
The Stern gang recently assas
sinated Count Folk Bernadotte,
whose place was taken by Dr.
Bunche, in Jerusalem. To pre
vent a second assassination, the
Israeli government has placed a
heavy Jewish guard around Dr.
Bunche.
Previously, Bemadotte had been
offered a like guard, but he re
fused it. Bunche did not request
such a guard, but it was sup
plied anyway.
These guards are under direct
orders from David Ben-Gurion,
premier and defense minister of
Israel. He said the guard was
provided whether Bunche wanted
it or not because his country
would be made responsible for
any future terrorist action. There
fore, he said, it intended to pro
vide every necessary precaution.
Dr. Nelson Is
New Dean at
Howard Univ.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). An
nouncement of the new organiza
tional setup at Howard university
came as a surprise to the school’s
faculty last week. Dr. William
Stuart Nelson, dean of the school
of religion, was selected to fill
the new post of dean of the uni
versity.
Although no word of the change
had been allowed to leak out,
comment on the creation of the
new post was favorable. On the
other hand, the new setup is be
lieved to have caused the resig
nation of the Treasurer N. D.
Johnstone.
Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president
of Howard, mapped out the plains
for the new Howard and presented
it to the trustees. The trustees
voted in favor of the idea.
Long considered as a person
close to President Johnson, John
stone, treasurer of the school for
17 years, was not consulted in
the preliminary planning. The
new scheme is said to have let
Johnstone keep his same position,
but to have robbed him of much
of his authority.
In line for the vacated treas
urer’s post is Spurgeon Burke,
manager of the Slowe and Carver
dormitories, according to reports,
Dean Nelson has been a pro
fessor and dean at the school of
religion since 1940. Before that
he served as president of Dillard
university for four years and
president of Shaw university, Ra
leigh, N. C., for five years.
He earned his B.A. degree at
Howard in 1920 and bachelor of
divinity degree at Yale univer
sity in 1924, Before going to Shaw
he was a faculty member of How
ard for several years.
Paul Robeson Is
COAA Chairman
NEW YORK.—The fight be
tween Dr. Max Yergan and the
African Council of African af
fairs came to an end on Thurs
day in the supreme court here.
Paul Robeson will now be the
undisputed chairman of the coun
cil, W. A. Hinton, secretary, and
Mrs. Estelle Osborne, an official
in the Wallace party, treasurer.
The judge gave both sides five
days in which to sign agreement
papers, which when made public
will be “the complete stepping
out of the council’s membership
by Yergen,” and a cash settlement
Famous People
Paint for the
Urban League
NEW YORK. (ANP). Some of
the world’s greatest leaders from
the field of diplomacy to the Ur
ban League Service fund, these
works were painted by such per
sonalities as Cab Calloway, Joe
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—Courtesy of the Lincoln Journal
MR. ELLIOTT aROOSEVELT
Louis, Lena Horne, Mrs. Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, Mrs. Vincent
Astor, Mrs. Winthrop Rockefeller.
Jackie Robinson, Bill “Bojan
gles” Robinson, Oswaldo Aranha,
Mrs. William Hastie, Langston
Hughes, Beatrice Lillie, Frank
Sinatra, Bill Stern, Frank Yerby,
Winston Churchill, Billy Rose.
Edgar Bergen, Katherine Cor
nell, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Gypsy Rose Lee, Sherman Bil
lingsley, Mary Margaret McBride,
Joan Crawford and many others.
All the paintings except Church
ill’s will be auctioned by the
Parke-Bernet galleries Oct. 13
with the proceeds going to the
Urban league.
Churchill’s dabbing venture, a
landscape of Marrakesh, was
painted after the Casablanca con
ference. The British leader gave
the painting to the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt
willed it to his son, Elliott, who
loaned it to the- art show.
Louis’ drawing is a pair of box
ing gloves, Bill Robinson’s a pair
of dancing shoes, and General
Eisenhower’s an Indian head cop
ied from a picture by Henry C.
Balink.
of no more than $5,000 to the
former chairman.
Carson DeWitt Baker and Pauli
Murray represented Yergen, while
Albert Gilbert and Themas B.
Jones, the newly made member
of the council’s executive board,
represented the council. The judge
in the case was Justice Henry
Clay Greenberg.
Politicos Tell
Party Views at
NAACP Rally
“Register and vote” was the
pervading theme of the NAACP
mass meeting and rally last Fri
day night which climaxed the
campaign of the local branch to
get Lincoln citizens to assure
themselves of the opportunity to
use their privilege of the ballot
November 2. Following a din
ner of tender Nebraska turkey,
three speakers, representing as
many political parties, explained
their party’s views on the main
campaign issues.
Mr. T. R. Pansing, president of
the Nebraska Young Republicans,
told how that after trying sev
eral parties, he decided on the
Republican party because he
found it “the best.” “Evaluate,
then decide,” he told the gather
ing. “The Republican party con
siders the individual.”
Mr. Joseph Ishakawa spoke on
the socialist platform. He paid
tribute to the good work of the
NAACP and added that the So
cialist party seeks to eliminate
the conditions that make the
NAACP necessary. He pointed
out further that • government
could not serve the individual if
it did not consider his economic
condition—housing, the costs of
living, etc.
Mr. Don Morrow, law student
and chairman of the Lancaster
county Young Democrats, re
viewed a part of his party’s
record. He said he believed that
Frank Sorrell would make a
better governor and proclaimed
his as the party of the common
man.
After the speeches, Mr. Dale
Weeks, Nebraska Wesleyan po
litical science instructor, mod
erated a question and answer
period. During the exchanges,
Mr. Pansing declared that the
Republicans had not done any
thing about the president’s cost
of living and rights programs be
cause they were waiting to let
the 81st Congress take the credit.
Mr% Ishakawa also further elab
orated on the Socialist program
as calling for public ownership
of basic industry and natural re
sources and the granting of equal
opportunties for all.
Rev. Robert Moody, president
of the local branch of the
NAACP, urged citizens to regis
ter at the commission’s offices at
113 Trust building, before Octo
ber 23rd. Mr. James Wadkins,
chairman of the committee on
speakers, urged Lincolnites to
join and support their chapters
of the NAACP. About 175 per
sons attended.
Extension Leatler
Retires After 34
Yrs.’ Service in La.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Thom
as J. Jordan, assistant state agent
in charge of agricultural exten
sion work with Louisana colored
farmers, retired last week after
34 years of service which date
back to the beginning of exten
sion work in the state. He is to
be succeeded by Robert J. Court
ney, one of his county agents.
In a letter which Mr. Jordan
received from T. M. Campbell,
extension service field agent, the
retiring founder of Negro exten
sion work in Louisiana was
praised for his outstanding con
tribution to the promotion ofdi
Race Bar Dropped at
Naval Training Station
Jim Crow's End Proves
Success at Great Lakes
BY HARRY PEASE
GREAT LAKES, 111. (NANA).
The navy has abolished Jim Crow.
At the Great Lakes naval
training center, white and -Negro
boys serve in the same com
panies, live in the same corn
racks, eat together and study to
perfect the same skills. The same
is true at sea.
The white sailors—including
those reared in the deep south—
are accepting the new arrange
ment co-operatively.
* * *
TO UNDERSTAND what a
revolution the nonsegregation
policy is, you have to know a
little recent naval history.
Before World war II, Negroes
were recruited only in the stew
ard’s branch. A Negro sailor
began his career as a messman.
He served meals in the officers’ j
wardroom, made up the officers’
bunks, washed the officers’ dishes,
even shined the officers’ shoes
as a part of his regular duty.
.
He could advance to officer’s
steward—a head man among the
servants—or to officer’s cook.
As for becoming a “real man
of-warsman”—a boatswain’s mate,
machinist’s mate, water tender,
signalman, radioman or gunner’s
mate—the Negro had no chance
at all.
* * i>
ABOUT 1944, a few Negro en
listees were given training in
general service ratings. But seg
regation continued. Two mine
sweepers went to sea with white
officers and all-Negro crews.
They turned out to be fine ships.
More Negroes were trained for
general service. They were as
signed to fleet auxiliaries—oilers,
transports and tugs. They made
good.
BUT IN TRAINING they were
still segregated. At Great Lakes,
they were not only assigned to
all-Negro companies but to all
Negro camps. Camp Robert Small
and Camp Moffett, at the far
west edge of the station, were Jim
Crow areas.
Now that is changed. Capt.
Thomas F. Daarden, assistant
chief of naval personnel for
plans, said recently in Washing
ton, “any man who meets the
navy’s minimum mental, physi
cal and moral standards can
enlist for any type of duty and
progress as far as his ability will
permit. Race, creed and color
make no difference to us.”
The about-face is complete. Not
only is a Negro boy who enlists
today free of the requirement
that he plan on a career as a
servant; he cannot enlist as a
steward if he wants to. The stew
ard’s branch is up to complement.
The Negro must choose a general
service category.
* * *
NEGROES ARE DOING well
under the new system. From the
5,000 men who finished their re
cruit training last week, 16 were
cited for excellence. Two of the
16 are Negroes.
A higher honor was accorded
about two months ago to Herbert
G. Odom, a Negro from New York
City. He finished a 42-week
training course for electronics
technicians at the top of his class.
Hi * *
WHITE SAILORS accept their
Negro shipmates with friendliness,
the navy spokesmen say.
“In the two years we have been
training mixed companies there
has not been a single reported in
cident chargeable to race dif
ference,’’ said Lt. James Gormson,
an officer on the training center
staff.
Negro Policeman
Suspended for
Doing His Duty
CHATANOOGA, Tenn. (ANP).
A Negro police officer was given
a 15 day suspension because he
arrested a white man for drunk
eness last week. The local branch
NAACP and the Negro Business
Men’s league asked for a change
in this city’s policy.
The city rules that a Negro of
ficer may not arrest a white man.
The city has seven colored po
licemen.
versified farming and better liv
ing.
Said Mr. Campbell’s letter:
“Your retirement is a real loss to
Louisiana Extension Service.
Through 34 years, you have been
the guiding spirit of balanced
farming and of farm and home
improvement by colored farm
people in your state.”
It was in August of 1913 that
Mr. Jordan, then a recent gradu
ate of Tuskegee, was appointed
farm agent in two North Loui
siana parishes. He was the first
in the state to accept the chal
lenge to help extend the benefits
3f agricultural experimentation to
colored farm people.
No Action Yet
On Truman’s
FEPC Order
WASHINGTON. (ANP). While
admitting that the United States
Civil Service commission office
has been swamped with letters
and complaints from Negroes ci
ting cases of discrimination in the
federal agencies, Harry B. Mit
chell, commission president, de
clared last week that no action
has yet been taken on President .
Truman’s Executive Order No.
9980, issued July 26, providing for
the appointment of a fair em
ployment board within the civil
service commission.
Mr. Mitchell stated, however,
that appointments to the board
will be made shortly, and that “a
retired Negro federal worker,
formerly employed by the state
department, will be one of the
persons selected.”
Agency critics have pointed out
that the government offices are,
in effect, disobeying the chief
executive’s directive, claiming that
there would have been no need
for the creation of a fair em
ployment officer in the federal
offices if the directors of per
sonnel were fairly administering
the appointments and promotion
of civil service workers without
regard to race, creed or color.
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