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Volume 3, No. 8 Lincoln 3, Nebraska Thursday, November 18. 1948
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‘ ReligionU , m In
Addresses V!S ?nts
Equality, Hosp _ US._..jhip were
rated by Dr. Paul Harrison last Thursday as four essentials
for Americans if they are not to neglect their duty to them
selves and to the rest of the world. Dr. Harrison, believed
by some to be one of the great personages of our time in
Nebraska, has just recently returned to this country from
Arabia where he had spent 36 years in Christian missionary
service.
—Courtesy The Lincoln Journal
DR. PAUL HARRISON
. . great personage
Speaking before a morning
convocation in the “Religion in
Life” series at the University of
Nebraska, his alma mater. Dr.
Harrison averred that hospital
ity would relieve a lot of strain
between national groups.
Other speakers included Rabbi
L. H. Silberman, of Omaha, who
pointed out man’s struggles be
tween good and evil, and Dr.
E. G. Everton of Grinnell Col
lege, Iowa, who averred that
greater consistency is needed
today in religious ethics in our
country where neutral scientific
progress gives man greater
power to do good or ill.
The religion series began on
Sunday evening Nov. 7 with an
address by Dr. O. K. Judd. Par
ticipating in programs of the
series were Charles Goolsby, who
acted as master of ceremonies on
Fraternity
Takes Negro
'At Amherst
AMHERST, Mass., Nov. 6—The
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Ara
'• herSt College mailed notice to its
national headquarters and other
chapters today that it had re
pledged a Negro student and in
tended to initiate him as a mem
ber. With the unanimous consent
of its fifty-three members, the
Amherst chapter requested a
definite ruling on its action.
Today’s developments followed
the original pledging last April of
m Thomas Gibbs, 19 years old, of
[ Evanston, 111., now a sophomore
C and member of the Amherst Stu
* dent Council and Freshmen Orien
tation Committee.
Phi Kappa Psi officers here, de
nying a report published in a Bos
ton newspaper that they had de
fied a national ruling, asserted
there had been no national ruling
in the case. While they were re
luctant to be quoted, they indi
cated that the Amherst chapter
would hold its firm stand and in
sist that Mr. Gibbs be initiated.
Under a new fraternity system
instituted, on the Amherst campus
two years ago, freshmen cannot
be “rushed” or pledged until April
of their first year. They are ini
tiated in their sophomore year.
Of the thirteen Greek-letter fra
& ternities at the college, twelve
have national affiliation and con
sequently turn over a share of the
annual membership dues to the
national body.
Mr. Gibbs is popular and con
sidered a good student. He is five
feet eleven inches tall and is try
ing out for the track team as a
distance runner.—The N. Y. Times.
? $200,000 Law
School Scheduled
For S.C. A&M
COLLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP). Con
tracts have been let and construc
tion on a new law school build
ing for State A. and M. College
begun, it was disclosed here last
week. The new building will cost,
fully equipped, about $200,000.
Monday morning, and the ur
ban League Girls Glee club
under the direction of Mrs. Eu
genia Brown singing for the
closing program. Thursday
night, the academic-religious
atmosphere was broken by spon
taneous applause for the singing
of the girl’s group which ren
dered two spirituals: “Joshua”
(Arr. Cain) and Mrs. Brown's!
arrangement of “King of Kings.”
Memphis Gets
Ten Negro
Policemen
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Beale street
was unusually crowded last No
vember 6. The reason was not |
difficult to see. For the first time
in the memories of thousands of
Memphians, Negro police officers
were patrolling the Beale Street1
beat—the street where the blues
began and where, according to
tradition “business never closes
until somebody gets killed.”
So the curiosity seekers and the
folk who know and frequent Beale
Street turned out «n masse to see
the new arms of the law. The
officers, ten in all, proved their
mettle with the arrest of more
than twenty-five persons for mis
demeanors within three hours on
the “toughest assignment in Mem
phis.”
The re-employment of Negroes
in this city has been almost a per
sonal project of Lewis O. Swingler,
editor of the Memphis World and
a national magazine, The Sphinx.
Swingler, a native of Tulsa, Okla
homa, received his education in
journalism at the University of
Nebraska where he was a charter
member of Alpha Phi Alpha fra
ternity there.
Lt. W. A. Wilson commands the
detachment, which will also have
the responsibility of preserving
order at Washington and Melrose
stadia during the rest of the foot
ball season.
Star Gridster Dies
INSTITUTE, W. Va. (ANP). A
fall in the gymnasium class
brought to a close the brilliant
career of John Redman of Ports
mouth, Va., star halfback of West
Virginia State college, here last
Wednesday. According to Dr. C.
C. Hawkins, director of physical
education and health, the young
sophomore died 40 minutes after
wards.
Negroes Fill Many Posts
CROP Freedom
Train Readies
For Shipping
LINCOLN—With 60 of Ne
braska’s 93 counties fully organ
ized for the Christian Rural Over
seas Program Goodwill Train,
state director Dwight Dell voiced
the possibility today that this
year’s train will surpass the Abra
ham Lincoln Friendship Train in
total number of carloads sent for
European relief.
Support for the Goodwill Train
have been coming in from all over
the state, Dell said, as canvassers
contacted farmers and rural
dwellers during CROP Week. An
over-all goal of one percent of
each farm’s harvest is being at
tempted with some counties pledg
ing totals ranging to a bushel and
more per person in the county.
The Goodwill Train will be
made of three sections, all des
tined for New Orleans where
foodstuffs contributed by Nebras
kans will be loaded aboard ships
for overseas destinations. State
CROP Director, Dwight Dell re
ports that there is a good possi
bility that this year’s train will
equal the 110 car strength at
tained by the Abraham Lincoln
Friendship train last year.
The Nebraska Goodwill Train,
which is sponsored by the Chris
tian Rural Overseas Program
(CROP), is scheduled to leave the
state Dec. 10, with appropriate
ceremonies here Dec. 7-9.
White Urges
HST to Back
Rights Fully
NEW YORK. (ANP). Walter
White, executive secretary of the
NAACP, dispatched a telegram
to President Truman here last
Thursday urging that the re-j
elected chief executive “continue j
complete support” of his civil
rights program.
Congratulating the president on
his re-election, the telegram said:
“Your triumph is a mandate
under which you and the new
congress can proceed to carry out
the program you outlined so
clearly and courageously to the
people, including housing, labor
legislation, civil liberties and in
flation control, all of which were
cavalierly rejected by the 80th
congress.
“We especially urge you to con
tinue giving your full and com
plete support to a program for
civil rights.”
However, according to the fair
St. Louis Post Dispatch, white
daily, many liberal groups are
urging caution in putting over the
civil rights program.
W. A. Bustamante
Resigns as Mayor
KINGSTON, Jamaica. (ANP).
William Alexander Bustamante,
the spectacular political figure of
Jamaica, resigned Tuesday as
mayor of Kingston. Head of the
legislative body of Jamaica, he
also held the important post of
mayor. When he took that office
a year ago, however, he said he
would hold it only one year. L.
G. Newland, deputy mayor, suc
ceeded him. Mayoral elections will
take place in November. Busta
mante will support Newland for
the post. ’
Nationwide Returns Show
Negroes Gave Aid To HST, i
Okayed Negro Democrats
Compiled From the Associated Negro Press
Negroes throughout tfte nation gave enthusiastic back
ing to President Truman, mainly because of his civil rights
program, and on the wave of this support swept into office
Negro Democrats, according to reports received by the
ANP.
At the same time, the leadership of the Negro press
wras being questioned along with that of other newspapers.
Leading Negro weeklies, with few exceptions, supported
Dewey as did most of the other influential press, yet Tru
man won.
Troop 60 Will
Participate In
Boy Scout Circus
When the Cornhusker Council
of the Boy Scouts of America get
together in the Coliseum for their
circus on November 26 and 27,
the boys from Troop 60 will be
there and well-prepared too,
according to Joseph Adams, Scout
master. Already the Scouts are
busying themselves to get their
project of airplane models and
other projects for entry in the
exhibits.
Tickets are now on sale for
the event by the Boy Scouts. A
part of the proceeds will be used
for the local troop program.
Quinn Chapel
Film Series
Finds Favor
As part of the new program of
visual education instituted by Rev.
J. B. Brooks, Sunday evening wor
ship at the Chapel has taken on a
unique appeal for Lincolnites. Rev.
Brooks has brought three religious
pictures to his congregation using
up - to - date 16-mm projection
equipment and color film. These
have included “In His Steps” and
“Woman To Remember”, both Ca
thedral productions. As a matter
of fact, Rev. Brooks has become
Lincoln agent for Cathedral films. '
On Sunday, November 21, “Who
Is My Neighbor?” is scheduled.
Based on Luke 9:25ff, it is the
story of a Samaritan family and
their experiences in Jerusalem.
True to the events in the good
Samaritan, as Jesus told it, the
story reaches its climax on the
road from Jerusalem. The public
is invited to attend the services.
Los Angeles
Conn ty W on' tF igh t
Intermarriage Ban
LOS ANGELES. (ANP). The
California Supreme court’s invali
dation of the long-standing state
law against interracial marriages
will not be contested by Los
Angeles county, it was disclosed
here last week. The court made
the decision on Oct. 1, in a case
involving the refusal by the
county clerk to issue a marriage
license to Miss Andrea D. Perez,
23, white, and Sylvester S. Davis,
Jr., Negro.
When the 30 day period in
which the County could appeal the
decision expired, County Counsel
Harold W. Kennedy instructed
acted in 1872, it forbade the
to ignore the old legal ban. En
Acting County Clerk W. G. Sharp
marriage of white persons with
members of the Negro, Mongolian
and Malayan races.
l.mcago rJecls JL Judges,
Dan soil Reeleclecl Congress
Chicago swept two Negro judges
into office and re-elected Rep.
William L. Dawson to his fourth
term in congress in the democratic
landslide here last week.
Judge Wendell E. Green, rated
by attorneys here as the city’s best
judge, received 1,018,266 votes
to start his second term as a mu
nicipal court judge.
Former all-American football
star at Iowa and pro with the Chi
cago Cardinals, Fred “Duke’*
Slater was the second colored mu
nicipal court justice elected with
more than 966,000 votes. His pres
ent office is that of assistant cor
poration council.
Dawson received more votes
than his two opponents, repub
lican William ET. King and pro
gressive Elarl B. Dickerson, com
bined to return to office from the
First district.
Harlem Goes Democratic
Negro democrats won every
election in New York City last
Tuesday. Headed by Rep. Adam
Powell, they swept four members
into the state legislature.
Powell won over republican dis
trict leader Harold C. Burton
63,000 to 14,000. In the assembly
fights; in the 11th district Colden
Brown lost to Thomas Dickens, d,
6,815 to 16,000, in the 12th dis
trict, unknown Elijah Crump, d,
won 26,703 to 9,305 for his oppo
nent, Eugene Kemper; in the
13th district, Harold A. Stevens
polled 20,238 votes to defeat Fred
Farrar, Jr., r, who had 8,283 votes
and in the 14th district, Hulan E.
Jacka was given 10,133 votes to
win over Israel Davis, r, who had
2,571 votes. ^
Thus New York continued to
send more Negroes to its state
legislature than any other state
and turned out a total of 171,622
votes in a year when registrations
did not hit the peak.
Colored Coroner Elected
In Wayne County, Mich.
Another page on the democracy
side was added to the history of
Wayne county Tuesday when vot
ers of both races elected Dr.
Amuel B. Milton coroner of the
county. It marks the first time
in history that a colored physi
cian has been elected to the cor
oner’s office by the votes of the
people of Wayne county. The
coroner’s position carries a salary
of $9,000 per year, plus allowances
for expenses.
“The Voice99 Cook Book
To Be Ready December 15
The long awaited cook book
compiled by Mrs. Brevy Miller is
now in the hands of the press and
will be ready in time for Christ
mas. Recipes have been gathered
from famous cooks the altar
and elsewhere.