Volv No. yfFJ a Lincoln 3, Nebraska
STATE CHICKEN-OF-TOMORROW WINNER—Roscoe Hill, right,
of Hill's Hatcheries, Lincoln, receives congratulations from ^rof.
J. H. Claybaugh, University of Nebraska, on winning top honors
in the 1949 Chicken-of-Tomorrow State contest. Herb Mahumed,
center, public relations counsellor for A&P Food Stores, sponsors
of the contest, holds the large trophy awarded for the best 12
week-old broiler. Contest finals were held in Nebraska City.
Bishop W. E. Holman To Highlight
Speaking at District Meeting of
Church of Christ; Here June 26
Monday, June 20, the semi-annual Midwest district
convention of the Western diocese of the Church of Christ
(Holiness) got under way at Christ Temple church, 2149 U
Street. Highlight of the convention will be the visit of
Bishop W. E. Holman of Washington, D. C., who will speak
at a 3 p.m. meeting Sunday afternoon, June 26. Bishop
Holman is one of the most ardent workers of his denomina
tion and is the founder of Boys Town Inc., Surry County,
Virginia—a home for boys of all
races patterned after the world
famed, original Boys Town in
Nebraska. When Bishop Holman ;
was in Nebraska last April, he
visited Boys Town.
Other church officers in Lin
coln for the week are Overseer
J. W. Gilbert, successful Detroit
businessman, and Sadie McWil
liams of Denver, and Rev. L. P.
Johnson of Detroit, evangelists.
Yesterday (Wednesday) was’
devoted to the work of the Sun- '
day Schools and the Holiness
Young Peoples Union. Today,1
the special speaker for the C. W.
W. W., women’s organization will
be Sister Peace of Omaha. The
meeting series is also affording
an opportunity to hear fiery gos
pel preaching daily at 10, 3 and
7:30 p. m. Saturday the conven
tion delegates are scheduled to
go sightseeing about Lincoln.
Portland to Have
Hearings on Civil
Rights Ordinance
PORTLAND, Ore. (ANP). The
mayor’s committe on intergroup
relations will hold a public hear
ing July 6 on a proposed city
ordinance to prevent racial dis
crimination in public places such
as hospitals and restaurants. This
ordinance would form an amend
ment to the city police code.
The Rev. Myron C. Cole, chair
man of the mayor’s committee,
said hearings will determine “if
a need for civil rights legislation
e>:sts in the city.”
Michigan Boy
♦ To USMA
DETROIT. (ANP). Clifford
Worthy of Detroit will enter the
U. S. Military academy at West
Point, N. Y. in July. Appointed
to the academy last fall by Rep.
John Dingel, Worthy passed his
physical and mental tests re
cently at Fort Sheridan, 111.
England Made
Robeson World's
Richest Artist
LONDON. (ANP). Without the
financial support of the British,
Paul Robeson would not have
been a financial success, a Lon
don newspaper, The Sunday Ex
press, claimed recently in an
article about Robeson.
Calling Robeson the world’s
richest artist, the paper said:
“Robeson, who is 51, is reputed
to be about the richest artist in
the world today. Most of his
wealth was earned in Britain.
He was ‘discovered’ in a curi
ous way in the United States, but
there he found racial prejudice
irksome and blossomed to full
stardom in Britain’s more tolerant
treatment.”
This article, entitled “Why
Doesn’t Paul Robeson give more
help to his own Negroes instead
of Russian Reds?” explained why
he turned to the support of Russia
against Great Britain. Once in
1931, the paper said, Robeson said
of England:
“England is the place where I
am at home.”
Explaining Robeson’s change
! of attitude toward England, the
article said:'
“Some say that Robeson em
braced Communism when he
tried, without success, to have his
son educated at an English pub
lic school.”
Gets Life for
Killing Agent
JACKSON, Mjss. (ANP). A 21
[ year-old youth who was extra
dited from Chicago was sentenced
last week to life imprisonment for
the slaying of a Chicago defender
agent, J. E. Conic.
Lonnie James Nichols was
found guilty of murder after the
jury had deliberated an hour.
Circuit Judge Hugh B. Gillespie
[of criminal court heard the ease.j
Clark, Wilson Ask Law To
Ban InterstafeTravel Bias
Vacation Bible
School to Close
Friday Night
Vacation Bible school has been
under way for almost two weeks
at the Urban League and will
come to an end for the more
t than fifty children enrolled, to
morrow night.
The school has been divided
into three classes. Mrs. Arthur
Patrick is in charge of the begin
| ners (to grade 3), Mrs. Robert
| Letcher teaches the primary
| pupils (to grade 5) and Mrs.
! Walter Bell, who is also director
of the school, teaches those above
grade 5.
Periods of instruction cover a
study of the Old Testament char
acters, singing, recreation and
handcrafts to illustrate the Bible
stories.
The school work will be ex
hibited. for the inspection of par
ents and friends when the clos
ing exercise are held, according
to Mrs. Letcher.
NAPOME Names
Officers For
Coming Year
j The Nebraska sectioifo'f the Na
j tional Association of Post Office
Maintenance Employes recently
I held its election of officers. Suc
! cessful candidates were: H. V.
Hill, Lincoln, president; Jessie
M. Playford, Lincoln, first vice;
Willie Page, second vice; Jeffie B,
Bonds, Lincoln, third vice; Harry
C. Larsen, Chadron, fourth vice
and P. C. Sternhagen, North
Platte, fifth vice president. Other
officers are Mrs. Basilia Bell, Lin
coln, secretary-treasurer, James
A. Farrar, Lincoln, sergeant at
arms.
Lincolnites elected to the Eighth
district of the association which
covers five states, are Walter
Goodbrod, first vice president and
Mrs. Loretta R. Martin, who was
re-elected vice president for Ne
braska.
Winner of Derby
Prize Finds Money
Brings Worries
NEW YORK. (ANP). Even a
winner of a $100,000 English
Derby award has her troubles,
Mrs. Corrine Smith, 39, learned
last week. Mrs. Smith, who works
as a maid, has been flooded with
letters and telephone calls and
visits by people who want some
of her winnings.
“Most of the calls,1' she said,
“have come from people who
want to borrow some money, rep
resent me in investments, or who
wrant to know the man I bought
the lucky ticket from.”
Despite her good fortune, Mrs
Smith has continued to work. She
plans to work even after she gets
her money. Although she won
$100,000 she expects to turn over
$67,000 of it to Uncle Sam for
income taxes.
She is not sure of what she
wants to do with her wealth, but
she does hope to make a good
home for her parents who live t n
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WASHINGTON. (ANP). Before hearings of the house
judiciary subcommittee, Atty. Gen. Tom Clark and indus
trialist Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric and
chairman of President Truman’s recent civil rights com
mittee, asked for laws banning segregation in interstate
transportation.
They asked Congress to “plug the gaps” in civil rights
laws by stopping jim crow travel.
Such a law, Clark said, will
“remove all doubts” that public
transportation facilities are “avail
able to all without distinction be
cause of race or color.”
“If we modernize these stat
utes,” Wilson told the subcommit
tee, “we can make them effective
20th century tools for the protec
tion of civil rights.”
Speaking of anti-segregation
laws, he said:
“I strongly recommend that
this legislative step be taken.
Segregation is one of our nation’s
greatest social problems and it
will not be solved overnight.
“But it seems appropriate that
in the channels of interstate com
merce, the control of which has
been the express power and re
sponsibility of the federal gov
ernment for more than a century
and a half, racial segregation
should be outlawed without fur
ther delay.
Fluid Drive, Baby
Contest at Quinn
Closes
for improvement
funds at Quinn Chapel will offi
cially come to . a close Sunday,
June 26, according to Rev. J. B.
Brooks, pastor. The drive was
begun April 18 to raise funds for
needed repairs and improvement
of the church property at 9th and
C street. The work, actually be
gun in March, has included in
terior painting and refinishing of
the woodwork, repair of weakened
plaster, improvement of the light
ing, roof repairs, the laying of
carpet on the sanctuary floor and
the improvement of plumbing. Al
though work is not yet complete,
so the committee has delayed the
planned open house until July 24.
The baby contest being spon
sored by one of the rally groups
will also close July 26 but the
winners will not be announced
until the following week.
Sits In As
Judge For Week
In St. Louis
ST. LOUIS. (ANP). For the
first time in St. Louis, a Negro is
serving as judge, Frank S. Bled
soe, local attorney, was appointed
last week to serve as provisional
judge in Police Judge Joseph B.
Catanzaro’s court. Major Joseph
M. Darst made the announce
ment.
Bledsoe is serving as judge in
the week beginning June 20. He
will sit in for Judge Catanzaro
for one week while the judge is
j on vacation.
Wins Entry
MRS. ADA SIPUEL FISHER
finally won a decision in her favor
after three years and five months
of court battles to break down the
color line iu Oklahoma schools.
June 18th, 24-year-old Mrs. Fisher
applied for entry to the Univer
sity of Oklahoma law school at
Norman and school officials
stated that they were prepared
I to accept her on the spot.
‘Hex’ Murderer
Orderetl To Die In
Chair July 15
TACOMA, Wash (ANP). Jake
Bird, convicted murderer who
pronounced a “hex” on persons
connected with his conviction,
was given a definite date, July
15, for his execution.
Judge Hugh Rosellini of supe
rior court told Bird:
“The court has heard you sev
eral times before. The court be
lieves there is no purpose in
hearing you further.”
If he dies on that date it
will mark the end of a fellow,
[ convicted of the slaying of Mrs.
Bertha Kludt two years ago. At
the time of his conviction he told
the principals involved that they
would die before he did. Already
six persons have.
He claims that his hex did the
job, but circumstances do not
seem to indicate that such is
true.
To Have Operation
ST. LOUIS. (ANP). Don Char
piot, artist noted for his paintings
of Negro spirituals, is in the
Lutheran hospital for a series of
operations on his eyes.
He has already had the first
and is awaiting the second. The
necessity for the eye surgery was
caused when pieces of masonite
! he was saw'ing flew into his eyes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Takes Seat
In Congress; To Support Civil Rights
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, jr.f 34-year-old
son of the late President Roose
velt, began what many predict
will be a great political career
last week when he was officially
sworn in as a member of the
I house of representatives.
Listing himself as a democrat
Roosevelt pledged himself as a
supporter of President Truman’s
fair deal program, especially in
civil rights and housing.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, his
mother, watched the installation
of her son from the gallerie*.