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Tib® W@d€@ PUBLISHED WEEKLY “Dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare Publisher and Editor business Address 2225 £> Street Phone 5-649) li No Answer Call 5-7506 Rubie W. Shakespeare. ..—- __Advertising and Business Manager Charles Goolsby. ..Associate Editor, Y.M.C.A. Lynwood Q«anr-lnte Editor, on Military Leave Rev. J. B. Rrn«ir« _Promotion Manager Mrs. )oe fSr-mwt nmilrrHnn Manager Member ot the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, June 9. 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln, Nebraska under the Act ot March 3, 1879. 1 year subscription-52.00 Single copy_-.. -So EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those ot the writer and not necessarily a reflection ot the oolicy ot The Voice.— Pub. Georgia’s Latest Lynching Fits Familiar Pattern of Dixie Terror BY VERNON D. JARRETT IRWINTON, Ga. (ANP). Geor gia’s latest bid for the nazi Iron Cross awards fits perfectly into the routine pattern of racist terror launched during reconstruction. Another Negro has been mur dered. No one knows who did it. The federal government “in vestigates” to see if it has the authority to “investigate.” The governor goes on record in favor of “law and order.” The mur derers are still free. Crispus At tacks rolls over in his grave— again. Bourbon Ivnch-murder victims usually fall in four broad groups. He is “too familiar” with white women; too active politically; “too wealthy” for a black man, or he has the courage to fight a white man. The lynching of Calif Hill, jr., 28, in this town of 500 was over the last mentioned “affront” to white superiority. The plot is simple: 1. Negro gets best of tussle with white man. 2. Negro taken to jail. 3. Sheriff leaves jail accessible to lynchers. 4. Lynchers “overpower” jail, murder Negro on country road. 5. Sheriff unable to identify lynchers. 6. Coronor’s jury declares vic tim killed by “hands unknown.” 7. Sham investigation opens and closes at same time. 8. Local authorities say Negro was ‘trouble maker, anyhow.” Here in Irwinton, Sheriff George Hatcher and the 28-year old Negro had engaged in a rift at a Negro cafe. Hill made the sheriff look bad before other Negroes, but he was finally sub dued and taken to jail. But the sheriff left the keys to Hill’s cell on the table in the dining room of his jail-home. Hill was kidnaped while the sheriff’s family “slept.” Hill was found near a creek around 7 a. m., the next day a battered man with bullet holps in his neck and heart. A six man coroner’s jury joined the ancient ritual with the old Ku Klux Klan hymn: “He came to his death by gunshot wounds, being shot through the head and i heart by hands unknown.” “ Before Hill, it was Isaiah Nixon, Negro veteran who voted. Before Nixon it was Robert Mallard, who was prosperous. Before Mal lard it was the Georgia massacre of two Negro veterans and their wives. And so the story goes. Who will it be next? Meanwhile, let’s get excited about democracy in Greece and Turkey. Linion Night Services Beginning Sunday, June 12, Mt. Zion Baptist church, 12th and F Streets, and Quinn Chapel AME Church, 9th and C, will hold their Sunday night services together, alternating between churches. • • Courtesy Answering all calls prompt!). # Hanging up receiver carefully. Take ingredients, spread them carefully among all mem bers of the party line. The result, a smoothly cooperating group of telephone neighbors who are helping themselves to better service. Try this recipe on your party line. You’ll really enjoy the result. The Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co. *4 Nebraska Company Serving Its teopUf | JhhJUL JthsL JOwitwlsL- l By Vernon Jarrett. SAN DIEGO. (ANP). It was a great day for democracy here in the triple-A Pacific Coast league when Big Luke Easter, Orestes Minoso, John Ritchey, Luiz Mar quez and Frank Austin matched speed and bats in a three-game series between the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indian farm team, and the Portland Beavers. .. . The legendary First Baseman Easter, who was leading the league with a .400 batting average and 18 homers at the time, rammed out only one hit, a double in the first two games but came back in the third to bat three for four. . Padre Leftfielder Minoso, on 24 hour recall option from the In dians, had hit safely in his 13 straight game . Both Minoso and his Spanish speaking pal, Left fielder Marquiz of Portland, chased up, down and across the garden like madmen to convert extra-base hits into easy outs, and Catcher Ritchey of the Padres displayed flashes here and there of Roy Campanella. In the Triple-A International League . . Montreal pitcher Dan Bankhead has racked up his fourth straight win...In his 8 to 2 win over the Rochester Red Wings, he showed improved control by walk ing only three men and giving up only five hits . Bankhead’s infant son slept through the game in his mother’s arms as his former Memphis Red Sox daddy hurled his best game of the season. Rumor has it that even if Bank head doesn’t make the grade as a pitcher. Manager Clay Hopper wants him around, because he’s one of the best batters on the team. In the American Association, an other triple-A league, St. Paul Centerfielder Jim Pendleton, who never played baseball until he entered the armed forces is lead ing the circuit in stolen bases with a big 17. His teammate Second Baseman Schenz is the closest thing to him with the Saints . . He has seven to his credit. Pendle ton was bought by the Dodger farm team from the Chicago Am erican Giants of the Negro Amer ican league. The first meeting will be at Quinn Chapel at 7:30 p. m., with R^v. W. I. Monroe delivering the sermon. The Mt. Zion choir will sing. Joking Customer—“How much are your four-dollar shoes?” Smart Salesman—“T*wo dollars a foot.” The Voice “Advertisers” are making this publication possible, show them your appreciation by your patronage. - ' - MONTE & SONS Body and Radiator Shop « Expert Wrecked Car Rebuilding | Body and Fender Repairing t RADIATORS— Cleaned, Repaired and Recored Complete Paint Jobs 2222 O St Phone 2-5097 ASK YOUR GROCER FOR GOLD CUP BREAD Omaha Area Missionaries Meet June 10 Friday, June 10, the missionary society of Quinn chapel will be host entertainers for the Omaha area of the Nebraska conference branch missionary society which wiU meet in Lincoln for its third quarterly inspirational meeting. Missionary workers and mission supporters from over Nebraska will be represented. *'■ Mrs. Frances Cloud, Omaha, area supervisor, and Mrs. Mary Kidd, Kansas City, Kans., Nebras ka Conference branch president will preside. Mrs. Oscar Harriott, Kingston, Jamaica, now living in Lincoln while her husband attends the university, is on the program for a talk about missions in Jamaica. Reasons Bunche Refused State Job Told By Editor NEW YORK. (ANP). Thurs day’s Herald Tribune front-paged a story that Dr. Ralph Bunche rejected Truman’s offer of a state department post because of the capital’s Jim-Crow practices. Further, the paper editorialized on the affair, which had been generally believed by persons close to Dr. Bunche as the reai reason he refused the highest honor yet accorded a colored citi zen. It would be pretty difficult for him to bow to Jim-Crowism after having enjoyed the freedom ac corded him elsewhere and having accepted honors as an interna tional figure. The ignominy of Washington’s separatism they say, was too much to impose on his family and he is said to have told Dean Acheson of the state de partment that the economic dif ference could not outweigh the lack of freedom Washington im posed on members of his race. The editorial spoke of the far reaching effects of this decision and how it humiliated the United States in the eyes of the world. .. . The First National Bank of Lincoln 10th & “O” St. Member F.DJ.C. George H. Wentz Inc. PLUMBING <& HEATING 1620 N Phone 2-1293