I
Fisk President to Address NU Convo
Dr. Charles S. Johnson, Famed
Social Scientist, Here April 26th
Dr. Charles S. Johnson, president of Fisk University in
Nashville, Tennessee, has been invited to address University
of Nebraska students and faculty at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday,
April 26, in the coliseum. Well known as a writer and one
of the leading authorities in America on interracial good
will, Dr. Johnson’s presence on the Nebraska campus is sig
nificant since he is the first Ne
gro to address an all-university
convocation in many years. In
effect, Dr. Joi.nson’s visit here is
a return courtesy for the appear
ance of Chancellor R. G. Gustav
son at Fisk university last
spring.
Recently Dr. Johnson was
guest at the Langston (Okla.)
university conference on social
adjustment. In his appearance
before the entire student body
and faculty, Dr. Johnson spoke
on the cultural implications of
the redirection of education »n
yJapan. He was a member of a
special commission which re
cently studied education in Japan
whose aim was' “to remove un
desirable features that will im
pede reform.” In a broad sense
these features “were cultural, eco
nomic and political,” he asserted.
“The commission,” he said, “sub
scribed to the view that im
provements in education could be
effected by freeing and stimulat
ing the cultural resources of the
people.”
During the second day, the
noted scholar appeared before a
group of college teachers from
most of the colleges in the state
of Oklahoma.
FDR Jr. Accuses
GOP Alliance of
Killing Rights Bill
NEW YORK—(ANP)—Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Jr., lawyer son of
the late president, told a Liberal
party meeting here last week
that “the reactionary coalition of
Republicans and Dixicrats killed
the civil rights bill and the hous
ing bill and passed the Taft
Hartley act.”
Young Roosevelt was announc
ing his plans to fight the coali
tion forces if he succeeds in win
ning the nomination to the Con
gress seat made vacant by the
death of Rep. Sol Bloom, Demo
crat. He has been rejected by
Tammany leaders for the party
nomination in the 20th district on
Manhattan’s west side.
Coggs 2-Time
Honors W inner
Granville Coggs, 2051 U Street,
was not only elected to Sigma Xi
as announced last week, but was
also made a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, national senior scholarship
society. Announcement of Cogg’s,
selection was made along with 99
other fourth-year Cornhuskers
who were guests at a dinner meet
ing of Sigma Xi and PBK at the
Student Union, Tuesday, April 12.
Coggs is the first Negro to be so
honored at Nebraska. In making
the announcement Dr. Roger V.
Schumate, president of Nebraska
PBK’s for many years, remarked
that the large number honored
was not due to lowered scholastic
standards but the increased schol
arship of Nebraska seniors.
A ttention Voters
Friday April 22, is the last
day for reregistration for vot
ing in tlie municipal elections
May 5.
IK.C. Woman
Willed $50,000
Bv Employer
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-(ANP)
Mrs. Beatrice Turner, 45-year
old maid to the late Mrs. Estelle
Hager, learned here last week
that she is to receive a bequest
of $50,000 from the estate of her
employer. Mrs. Hager died on
April 9.
Under the erms of a will filed
two days before in Jackson
county probate court, Mrs. Tur
ner will receive half of the es
tate, which is understood to total
approximately $100,000 in cash,
stocks, bonds, diamonds, and a
house.
Mrs. Turner had first been
employed by Mrs. Hager as
chauffeur, then successively as
maid, companion, and business
2-epresentative; then as a combi
nation of all four. She started
work in 1918 and worked full
time until 1944, after which she
worked three days a week.
Quinn Chapel
Has Series Of
Revival Meets
The Rev. Mr. E. V. Wade of
Omaha is the preacher for the
series of evangelistic meetings be
ing held nightly at Quinn Chapel.
Seeking a return to the old time
religion, Rev. Wade is bringing
stirring oratory and conservative
doctrine.
The Chapel, which has just been
redecorated by a group of church
men, has been fairly well filled
during the past week. The revival
series is scheduled to continue
week nights until Friday, April 29.
Akron Hospitals
To Train Negro
Nurses Soon
AKRON, O. (ANP)—The color
line in nurses training in Akron
was broken last week when two
of the city’s three hospitals de-*
dared that beginning Sept. 1,
they would accept Negro stu
dents on the same basis as other
students.
Jerry Bradley,
13, Succumbs
Jerry Bradley, 13, invalid son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. B.
Bradley, of 2148 T street, was
stricken suddenly about 3:10
Sunday afternoon. After efforts
to secure a physician failed, the
child was rushed by police
cruiser to a local hospital where
he was pronounced dead on ar
rival. Funeral services were
held Wednesday, April 20 at Um
berger’s Mortuary with the Rev.
William A. Green officiating.
( MEs Buy Site
For Church At
2046 S Street
Rev. W. L. Lilly, presiding
elder for the CME church,
brought to a climax the wofrk he
has been doing with his small
congregation and the people of
Lincoln the past three weeks,
when the purchase of a lot at
2046 S Street was completed.
The congregation has been
meeting twice monthly at 2030 T
Street and has desired a more
permanent home for some time.
After a meeting with the Zoning
board, money contributed by
Lincolnites was used to purchase
the property. Outstanding con
tributions were reported from
the Methodist church, from Mr.
George Randol and Mr. Herbert
Denton. Although the amount
was not disclosed, a small bal
ance remained for the purchase
of building materials.
Rev. Lilly left the work under
the direction of Rev. G. E.
Bfbens, Omaha, and Mr. James
Fuller, 2244 S Street.
Groups Ask World
Ban On Race And
Religious Murders
LAKE SUCCESS. (ANP)—A
campaign for ratification of an
international pact outlawing
mass destruction of human
groups for religious, national or
ethnical reasons was approved
here last week by 29 non-gov
ernmental organizations repre
senting 100,000,000 persons. The
oganizations were closing out a
week-long discussion on how
best to publicize the humani
tarian work of the U. N.
Noting that the general as
sembly had unanimously ap
proved an international conven
tion on genecide during its Paris
session, the body agreed, without
dissent, to do all in its power to
induce member states to ratify
the pact or pledge adherence to
it.
The 29 groups included labor,
church, women’s organizations
and other groups representing
almost every kind of human ac
tivity and interest throughout
the world.
The pact will have to be rati
fied by at least 20 countries be
fore it comes into force. No
country has done so, although
legislatiion has been introduced
into several parliaments.
Tuskegee’s Chapel Ushers
Eighteen smartly-clad young men serve as chapel ushers at Tuske
gee institute. In the above photo, kneeling, left to right, are: Wil
liam H. Brown, Emmett Reese, G. Earl Smith, Jesse H. Scott, George
Jackson, Charles M. Lee, Phillip M. Mallory, W'inston Wilcox. Stand
ing, left to right: Lawrence Wells, Charles M. Stinson, Robert E.
Peagler, Titus Hall, Artis D. M. Davenport, Rufus Billups, Charles
Bledsoe, LeRoy Ramsey, Frank E. Simmons, Maurice Lanham.
NAACP Membership Good
Investment For The Future
As Well As For The Present
By Charles Goolsby
Last weekend I was talking
with Rev. Robert Moody, Presi
dent of the city chapter of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People. He
said, “It is not unnatural in these
days of inflated money values to
consider carefully every purchase
in order to make a hard-earned
dollar go farther. Of all the secure
Assumes New Role
f \ 7#*'"7V
Ambassador Dudley
Following the Caster holidays,
Ambassador Edward R. Dudley
will assume charge of the new
American embassy in Liberia. He
became America’s first permanent
Negro diplomatic representative
of top rank last month when the
U. S. and Liberia agreed that their
legation in each other’s country
should become an embassy. Am
bassador Dudley formerly served
as envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary to Liberia.
A native of Virginia, he is a grad
uate of Johnson C. Smith and St.
Johns university.
Dorothy Maynor
In Goethe Fete
NEW YORK. (ANP)—Dorothy
Maynor, prominent soprano, will
appear in California on a pro
gram marking the bicentennial
of the birth of Johan Wolfgang
von Goethe, German poet. City
college held a huge exhibition at
the school’s Lincoln corridor to
honor the immortal Goethe.
investments and practical pur
chases, few equal the purchase of
an NAACP membership in hasten
ing the day of political and eco
nomic equality.
“The NAACP figured promi
nently In recent cases involving
the right of Negroes to attend the
schools in Oklahoma, Texas, and
Missouri; cases involving the right
to work at decent jobs and for a
decent living standard; and the
Henderson Case involving the
right of Negroes to travel inter
state without segregation in ac
commodations.
“These projects are not sup
ported because a few individuals
have the guts and fibre it takes to
buck the established patterns of
suppression in some parts of our
country, but because opportunity
for them now means opportunity
for hundreds tomorrow.”
The city and college chapters of
NAACP are beginning their mem
bership drives on April 22 with a
dinner meeting at the Lincoln
Urban League. Speaking on the
occasion will be Mrs. Rose B.
Johnson of Marshalltown, Iowa,
who is president of the Iowa State
conference of NAACP. Reserva
tions for the dinner which will
begin at 6:00 p. m. may be made
by calling 2-4673. Mrs. Johnson’s
speech at 7:00 will be free.
UCW Kensington
To Sponsor Two
In Piano Recital
The United Church Women’s
Kensington will sponsor a recital
of two piano pupils according to
an announcement by Mrs. Brevy
Miller.
The recital, to be held at 8:00
p. m. at the Urban League April
29, will present Charles Bonds,
8, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Bonds, 427 North 24th, and Miss
Barbara Moody, 14, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Moody,
2123 T Street. Charles Bonds is
a pupil of Miss Ruth Dreamer and
is in his second book. Barbaba
Moody is a pupil of Mrs. Eugenia
Brown and a former pupil of Mrs.
Etta Butler of Omaha. She is now
in the fifth grade of piano.
Albert J. Burks
Passes On Coast
Mr. Albert John Burke, 48,
former resident of Lincoln, died
in Oakland, Calif., Friday, April
15, according to word received in
Lincoln over the week end.
Mr. Burke grew up in Lincoln
where he graduated from Lin
coln High and the University of
Nebraska. He was a member of
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. An
employe of the Union Pacific
R. R., he has been away from
Lincoln for several years.
Surviving are his wife, Ruth,
and a son, Albert jr., both of St.
j Paul Minn., and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Burks of 2335 So.
8th Street, Lincoln. The body
was scheduled for arrival in Lin
coln for burial April 20 at which
time funeral arrangements with
Umbergers were tp be completed.