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Mrs. Jackie Robinson, wife of the Dodgers’ second-baseman, explains
• a fine point of the national sport to Mrs. Tex McCrary (Jinx Falken
berg) during her recent appearance on CBS-TV’s “Preview,” the
living television magazine edited by the McCrarys. Mrs. Robinson,
with Mrs. Lou Gehrig, Rabbit Maranville and Jean Hoffman, base
ball writer for a New York newspaper, explained the use of hand
signals on the field. (ANP Photo.)
Oklahoma House Votes to Relax
Segregation in State University
BY VIOLA D. LEWIS
OKLAHOMA CITY—(ANP)—A bill to permit Negroes
to enter the University of Oklahoma at Norman and Okla
homa A. and M. college at Stillwater—on a segregated basis
—was approved by a house vote of 79-20 here May 4. The
measure to relax the state segregation statutes, now on its
way to the senate, was sponsored by Rep. Edgar Boatman,
Okmulgee student at the university.
The approval represented sup
port by many who were against
the idea of Negroes and whites
attending the same schools. How
eyer, they said their support was
given because federal court de
cisions left no alternative.
The supreme court recently
ruled that Negroes must be ad
mitted to state schools when
equal educational facilities are not
offered elsewhere.
Speaker Walter Billingsley said,
- “It won’t keep Negroes out of the
state university to kill this bill.
They’re already there by judicial
decree of the highest court in the
land.”
Boatman earlier told the house
that a student referendum at Nor
man showed 80 percent supporting
the admission of Negroes.
Canadian Football
Star Inks Pro
Football Contract
MONTREAL. (ANP). Herb Tra
wick, Negro All-Canadian tackle,
has signed a 1949 contract with
the Alouettes, one of the country’s
leading professional teams.
Trawick is rated one of the
best players in Canadian football,
both from his great ability as a
blocker and as interference run
ner. He was signed with Eagle
Keys, big University of Kentucky
center, who will help bolster the
Alouettes line.
NYU Student Council
Names Negro to Post
Rudolph Walker, Negro youth,
was one of the four students re
cently elected to the executive
committee of the student council
at New York university. Lillian
Talmanson, Patricia O’Rourke
and Harry R. Kramer will work
5 hand in hand with him to im
prove student conditions. George
Pappas, another Negro youth,
was elected a student council
delegate to the National Student
association. George Davis, an
other sepia, is one of the out-go
ing officers of the executive com
mittee, Mr, Davis commutes from
Morristown, N. J., to his classes.
Lower House of
111. Legislature
Passes FEPC Bill
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (ANP). By
a vote of 81 to 43, the house of
the Illinois general assembly
passed a fair employment prac
tices bill last week after a 3%
hour debate. The four Negro rep
resentatives led the fight for the
bill.
The bill will now go to the state
senate where approval is expected.
It was a must item on Gov. Adlai
Stevenson’s platform and pro
gram.
If passed by the seriate the bill
will outlaw discrimination in em
ployment because of race, color,
creed, national origin, or an
cestry. Unions as well as employers
are included in this bill.
Spearheading the discussion of
the bill were Rep. Charles Jen
kins (r., Chicago), Rep. Charles
Skyled (d., Chicago), Rep. Noble
W. Lee (r., Chicago), and Rep.
Fred J. Smith (d., Chicago).
Receives Recognition
For High Scholarship
The Honor Society oi Agri
culture, Gamma Sigma Delta pre
sented a scholarship to Oliver
Emmit Smith, graduate student of
Texas, in recognition of his scho
larship and services to agriculture
and science. The award was pre
sented Tuesday, May 17. Mr.
Smith will complete work for a
masters degree in June.
Dr. Ralph Bunche
On Hand for Willkie
'One World’ Award
NEW YORK. (ANP)—Dr. Ralph
J. Bunche, recently returned to
this country from his on-the
spot duties as UN mediator for
Palestine, was on hand at the
Plaza hotel here recently to re
ceive one of eight “One World
Awards presented by the
One World Award committee for
contributions to international
amity” in the spirit of Woodrow
Wilson, Wendell Willkie and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Approximately 400 persons at
tended the award dinner and saw
Dr. Bunche receive his citation
personally.
^ Hurley
Progress
* College NAACP
“You have to work to keep free
dom. You have to work to get it
and you have to work to keep it,”
so said Mrs. Ruby Hurley, Youth
Secretary for the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People as she addressed
college and city branch members
Sunday at the Urban League. She
expressed concern for the exten
sion of Jim Crow practices in the
Midwest and said that in some
parts of the South strong efforts
are being made to force Negroes
back into a state of slavery. The
national officer was on a tour of
M'c’western campuses that had in
cluded Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Drake, Grinnell and Omaha U.
Mrs. Hurley said it was indeed
heartening to note ihe rapid
growth of NAACP chapters among
college groups especially in the
past two years. Memberships in
1948 reached over 4,500.
Speaking of advances on the ed
ucational front, she pointed to
state laws in Massachusetts and
New York that outlaw the in
clusion o* “race” and “religion” on
application blanks.
In a discussion period that fol
lowed she offered suggestions for
action and discussion programs,
relating the experience of students
on other campuses in this region
in promoting more general in
terracial goodwill and understand
ing.
One of Mrs. Hurley’s primary
reasons for visiting ihe Corn
husker campus was to confer with
administration officials regarding
the petition for University of Ne
braska recognition of the College
Chapter. A conference was sched
uled for Monday morning with
Dean T. J. Thompson, student af
fairs chief and other faculty mem
bers. Dean Thompson is chair
man of the Faculty Senate com
mittee on Student Organizations
which has had the constitution of
the college NAACP under consid
eration for some months.
Monday afternoon Mrs. Hurley
departed for Omaha to continue
her tour. I
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For ‘The Home of the Brave9
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Mingo, (Frank Lovejoy) and
Moss (James Edwards) are
ready to come back to the U. S.,
having paid their measure of
sacrifice for our “Home of the
Brave** and the land of the free.
Mingo gave an arm, while Moss
\ endured partial paralysis and j
bitter race hate. Each paid the
full price demanded by the exi- .
geneies vt the situation, and
each, through unnecessary suf
fering came to respect a man as
a man. regardless of the color
of his skin. Scene is from
“Home of the Brave,” United
Artists release. (ANP). j
' Bias Patterns Revealed In Study
Of Des Moines By Rights Confab
DES MOINES, la.— (ANP).—Results of a self survey,
revealed at a conference on human rights last week, dis
closed that while Negroes suffer no discrimination in several
areas, they suffer much bias in certain types of employment
and in finding places to eat. The survey was conducted by
78 Protestant churches in the city in cooperation with the
local Council of Church Women.
Guest Director
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WILLIAM L. DAWSON
William L. Dawson, the fam
ous director of music at Tuske
gee has been invited to be the
1930 conductor of the “Music for
Unity” program for the city
schools of Schenectady, N. Y.
Mr. Dawson’s recent direction
of the school singers was de
scribed as unusually outstand
ing and inspirational.”
IN.C. Mother, 33,
Has Triplets,
Now 20 Chlidren
DURHAM, N. C. (ANP). Mrs.
Jack Norris, 33, recently gave
birth to her 18th, 19th and 20th
child here when triplets Donald,
Daniel and David, weighing about
three pounds each were born.
They were taken to an incubator
in a hospital after their birth.
Mrs. Norris has been married 17
years. Her husband will support
his family of 20 children and a
wife with his job as a locker boy
and caddie at a loca1 golf club.
Except for local government
positions, the report given by Mi’s.
F. J. Weertz, chairman of the ex
periment committee, says Negroes
are barred from more desirable
jobs. It seems that union restric
tions keep Negroes in menial po
sitions.
The leading utilities, the Iowa
Power Sc Light company and the
N o r t h western Bell Telephone
company hire Negroes only in
service and menial work. The city
fire department hires no Negroes.
The Des Moines Railway com
pany uses one Negro for manual
labor.
Unions barring Negroes include
painters, carpenters and brick
layers. They are admitted to
laborers and builders unions.
City stores hire no Negroes as
clerks, Mrs. Weertz said. They
may work in hospitals as nurses
aides and maids, but do not have
opportunities equal to those of
white.
About housing, Mrs. Weertz
said.
"Good locations are restricted
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AFSC Work, Study
Groups Planned
For The Summer
PHILADELPHIA. (ANP). In
seminars and institutes, work
camps, internships in industry
and co-operatives and work in
mental and correctional institu
tions, people of many countries,
races and religions will meet to
work or study together this sum
mer under the sponsorship of the
American Friends Service com
mittee, it was announced recently
by Clarence E. Pickett, executive
secretary of the Quaker organi
zation.
Among the faculty who
participate in the seminars and
institutes sponsored by the Serv
ice committee are:
Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, professor and
head of the department of so
ciology at Haverford college;
Bayard Rustin, Race Relations
secretary of the Fellowship of Re
conciliation; Rayford Logan, pro
fessor of history at Howard uni
versity; and Ernest Kalibala,
African delegate to the U. N. now
area-specialist of the Council ef
Trusteeship.
Chicago Schools
Add Two Books
On Negro History
CHICAGO. (ANP). The Board
of Education has announced the
adoption for class room use in the
public schools two new textbooks
on Negroes, “The Negro Too in
American History” and “An Ele
mentary History of America in
cluding the Contributions of the
Negro Race.” '
Both books' are written by Prof.
Merl R. Eppse, head of the De
partment of History and Geo
graphy at Tennessee State college.
The former is a high school text
book and gives 651 pages of a
panoramic view of the Negro from
earliest times to the present day.
The latter covers the same ma
terial but is designed for tbe ele
mentary grades.