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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1949)
Wesleyan He^a Resigns, Accepts Cleveland Presidency Dr. John L. Knight, Chancellor of Nebraska Wesleyan University, announced last Wednesday that the Board of Trustees had accepted his resignation, effective July 1st, in order that he may accept the Presidency of Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Knight came to Lincoln from Salem, Oregon, where he was president of Williamette University. Since his coming in 1946, he has been an advocate of progress in educa tion and an outspoken proponent of fair play and equal opportunity for all. Last April, speaking to a group of Lincoln citizens, Dr. Knight • said, “The protection of civil rights is a national problem which concerns all of our citizenry. The fact that we have so many citi zens who profess democracy and yet who are not intelligently aware of the existence of many serious violations of civil rights in this country gives little promise for the continuation of that dem ocracy.” But, going further, Chancellor Knight said that the existence oi deplorable conditions should not make us unmindful of the many splendid advances which have been made under our democratic j system or the possibility of rapid advance under its more complete realization. When Chancellor Knight leaves this summer to accept his new post,* Lincoln and Nebraska will have lost one of its most pro gressive religionists, educators and citizens. Bundle WonT Fix Blame In New Outbreak LAKE,SUCCESS, N. Y. (ANP). Mediator Ralph J. Bunche refused here last week to place the blame on either the Israeli forces for the Egyptian units for the new out break of hostilities in the Negev section in violation of truce agree ments. He told reporters that he was unable to say who fired the first shot in the renewed Negev fighting which was then entering its fifth day and spreading almost to the Egyptian frontier. A report, bearing Bunche’s sig nature but prepared by UN ob servers on the Egyptian side, . tended to support complaints that Israeli forces had reopened hos tilities. However, Bunche said that the report contained only the Egyptian viewpoint since he was unable to include stagements from observ ers on the Israeli side. This in ability was laid to the fact that establishment of UN observers’ posts in the Negev had not been permitted. - “I have no knowledge of any incidents which could be claimed as provocation for the fighting in the Negev,” Bunche said. NAACP Honors Sponsor of Freedom Train NEW YORK. (ANP). The NAACP awarded the sponsors of the Freedom Train, the American Heritage foundation, last week ■ ^ special honors for its tour of . the past year. Executive Secy. Watler White in presenting the award cited the foundation “for its contribution to the raising of the level of active citizenship by bringing together all Americans, regardless of race, creed or ?olor, in rededication to our ideals of freedom and for en forcing a national policy of non segregation at all exhibits.” —Courtesy The Lincoln Journal. CHANCELLOR J. L. KNIGHT. Court Postpones Action on the ’ Carver Memorial By Rob Roy Ratliff. JOPLIN, Mo. (ANP). Claims of exception filed by both sides re garding awards made in the gov ernment’s suit condemning land for a memorial of Dr. George Washington Carver, led to an or der from the court delaying trial of the case for a possible six months. Judge Albert A. Ridge of Kan sas City issued the order this week passing the case over the Janu ary term of his court in Joplin. It is presumed that the matter will be placed on the docket for the next court term in May or June. The action followed the filing of exceptions to awards made by a court-appointed commission for the 210-acre farm near Diamond, Mo., that the government is se curing for the Carver shrine. Both the government and the defend ants in the case disagreed with the awards. The court order stated that the action was takne by stipulation of the persons concerned. Dr. Daw son W. Derfelt, present owner of the land, and the Empire District Electric company protested awards of $34,650 and $14,300 respec tively. The protests stated in ex ceptions that the totals were grossly inadequate. Counsel for the government con tends that the two awards and an additional award of $2,183.49 to Two American Women Plan to Dedicate Lives for One World By Gladys P. Graham. NEW YORK. (ANP). Two re tired school marms have declared their loyalty to “One World” as a reality, and have indicated they will dedicate the rest of their lives to the International Affairs Pro gram of America. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who received a bronze plaque from the Jewish Philanthropic league of Brooklyn for her work in child welfare, has announced that she will devote the rest of her life to the success of the UN and the Barney Ewell Honored Bv •/ Home Town LANCASTER. Pa. (ANP). Olympics star Barney Ewell was honored by his home town last week when his fellow citizens presented him a completely fur nished six-room house. Local admirers took Ewell, his wife and son to the new home, | handed him the keys to the front door, and told the Ewells to move | right in. Funds for this gift were col lected on Barney Ewell day last September at special ceremonies in his honor One of his Olym pics teammates, Harrison Dillard, took part in that program. Ewell, at 31, ran second in photo finishes in the 100 and 200 meter dashes and ran on the win ning U. S. relay team at the Olympics in London last sum mer. Ewell was subsequently sus pended by the AAU as a profes sional for accepting the gift, but Ewell said he w as proud of the gift of Lancaster citizens and that he would accept the ruling. May Curb Power Of House Rules Committee WASHINGTON. (ANP). A scheme to uurb the powers of the house rules committee was planned for introduction by Rep. George M. Grant (d., Ala.) as soon as congress met Jan. 3. His aim was to move that the committee cannot change any leg islation that is referred to it. Rep resentative Grant said he could not go so far as one group sug gested, that of taking away all the rules committee’s powers ex cept that of fixing dates for bills to be debated. Representative Grant planned to get his motion passed before the house passed on its own rules of procedure which are usually those of the preceding house. At present the rules committee must pass on all bills before they get a chance to reach the house floor. the New-Mac elec trie co-operative were “excessive.” The Empire District Electric company has requested a jury trial of the issues and the request will probably be honored when the case is heard. The postponement will stretch the litigation over a year’s period and will lengthen the time before actual work on the national shrine to the late Dr. Carver can begin. Officials have estimated that no work can begin until late 1950. continued improvement of inter national affairs. Norma E. Boyd, one of the in corporators of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, which was founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard university, and national chairman of the Non-Partisan council on public affairs for 10 years, is in accord with Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Boyd has-also come out with her declaration for a better and more workable international affairs program to which she had dedi cated the full force of her energies. Ethiopians Want Italian Lords Responsible for African War to Be Brought to Trial for Crimes LONDON—(ANP)—Ethiopia has made formal demands upon the U. S., British, French and Russian governments, to force Italy to surrender Marshals Pietro Badoglio, former Italian prime minister, and Rodolfo Graziani, former Italian governor-general of Ethiopia, for trial as war criminals, it was announced here last week by the Msgr. Wegner Chosen For U.L. Speaker v Courtesy The Lincoln Journal. MSGR. NICHOLAS WEGNER. Msgr. Nicholas Wegner will be the main speaker for the annual dinner meeting of the Lincoln Urban League on January , ac cording to an announcement from the league made last week. Msgr. Wegner succeeded the late, world-renowned Father Flanagan as director of Boys Town. He is well acquainted with the solution of social problems as evidenced by the successful op eration of the democratic young men’s community which has had three Negro mayors in the last two years. Walter Rife Succumbs to Stroke, Dec. 30 Mr. Walter Rife, 55, of 2001 “T” street, died Thursday, Dec. 30 as the result of a stroke suffered on the way home work. He was rushed to Bryan Memorial hos pital where he was pronounced dead. Mr. Rife had been a resident tor Lincoln since 1926 and was employed by the Western Electric company. Since last June, he had also operated Rife’s Cuddle Inn, popular ice cream center for young folks. He was born in Camero Junction, Mo., June 29, 1893. In 1926, he married Miss Lillian Buckner in St. Joseph where they lived until they moved to Lincoln. He wras a member of Mt. Zion Baptist church and Lebanon Lodge No. 3A.F.& A. M. (PHA). The lodge had charge of the serv ices at the church and grave on Monday. Surviving are his widow, Lil lian, two brothers; Ernest, Loth rop, Mo., and Leonard; three sis ters, Mrs. Bertha Divers, Mrs. Lo retta Smith and Mrs. James Gurm, all of Des Moines, la., 29 nieces and nephews and 8 grandnieces and nephews. Ethiopian legation. The demand, made in notes to the four powers, asked that their ambassadors in Rome represent the Ethiopian government in dis cussions with the Italian govern ment under the terms of the Ital ian peace treaty. It also named ten other Italiahs said to have been listed by the UN war crimes tribunal l^si May as guilty of war crimes ancflftimes against humanity during th^var against Ethiopia and during the Italian occupation. However, the notes stated that Ethiopia would only bring Ba doglio and Graziani to trial “as the persons most responsible for the policy of systematic errorism during the occupation.” $100,000 Program Approved For Shorter College LITTLE ROCK. (ANP). Dele gates to the Arkansas-Oklahoma AME con^erence' meeting in Bethel ’AME * church here last week approved a $100,000 educa tional program for Shorter col lege. ' The program calls for $40,000 to be spent for a new building and equipment for the home economics department, $50,000 for operation al expenses of the college and $10,000 toward purchase of hous ing and land adjacent to the campus. Twenty-seven presiding elders, 700 pastors and 300 lay repre sentatives attended the meeting, presided over by Bishop W. A. Fountain of Atlanta. Eric Williams lo UN Commission For Caribbean GUADALOUPE, West Indies. (ANP). Dr. Eric Williams, for merly of Howard university, who has been serving as acting deputy I chairman of the Research council I of the UN Caribbean commission has been named to serve again in the post until May, 1949. Permanent officials could not be named at this time because some of the national sections had to await instructions from their governments. Williams, who is on leave from Howard, is expected to be named to the post permanently. Response lo Questions Questionnaires were sent to a 1 number of families during the past week. Their names will be listed j in the order in which the returns j are received. Other questionnaires will be sent later. Mr. and Mrs. James Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Tarpley, Sr. Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Powell. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Adams. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams.