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! Joan Rankin w»»isih UV1S
Ohio Delegate to D.C.
Meet o£ Girls Nation
COLUMBUS, Ohio.—Joan Ran
kin, 16-year-old Cincinnati high
school girl, who was elected Gov
ernor of the Buckeye Girls State
last month will be among the Ohio
delegation to Girls Nation to be
held in Washington in August.
Girls States and Girls Nation are
educational activities of the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary, conceived
to -show American girls how their
government works and to demon
strate the actual details of tf\e
democratic processes at various
levels.
The Ohio American Legion Aux
iliary in selecting its delegates to
Girls Nation had previously named
Miss Rankin an alternate and said
that she would not go to Wash
ington. The action was taken to
save her “embarrassment posed by
social discrimination in Washing
ton.” The Ohio auxiliary reversed
its decision last week and said that
Joan Rankin would make the trip.
The Ohio State Democratic league
and the Ohio chapters of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People had
previously lodged a protest to the
by-pass and had urged the Ohio
Legion to fight discrimination in
the Nation’s capital by sending the
attractive Ohio miss.
Meanwhile, out in Nebraska, no
word had been received as to
whether or not Teresa Littlejohn,
16-year-old Omaha governor of
the Cornhusker Girls State would
attend the national meet.
5th AME District
Laymen Plan For
Solid Organization
OSKALOOSA, Kans.—The lay
men of the Fourth Episcopal dis
trict of the AME church held
their annual meeting in Minneap
olis, Minn., July 6, 7, 8 and 9,
under the administration of its
president, William Entxminger of
Detroit. The work of the conven
tion was to consider ways of
“better supporting and the super
vision of and preaching the Word.”
Meanwhile, Bishop D. Ormonde
Walker of the Fifth Episcopal dis
trict of the AME church expressed
his interest in a letter to George
J. Jones, president of the Fifth
district’s Laymen’s organization,
said, “I am definitely interested in
a very strong laymen’s organiza
tion in the Fifth district.”
At a meeting of the ministers
and laymen in Kansas City, Kans.,
last month, Bishop Walker sug
gested a fine, simple plan for each
church conference and district in
organizing.
1. That a lay organization should
be set up in every church.
2. That in each local church one
Sunday of every year be given
over to laymen to raise funds for
the support of their organization.
" 3. That each local laymen’s or
ganization would send a delegate
to meet at the seat of the annual
conference with the assurance that
certain time would be given to it.
4. That conference laymen’s or
ganization be set up by elections.
President George Jones further
urged the laymen of his denomi
nation to co-operate in the devel
opment of their local units.
Warren Will Sign
\ational Guard Bill
— Courtesy 'Lincoln Journal.
Gov. Francis E. Warren.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (ANP).
Assemblyman W. Byron Rum
; ford’s measure to abolish racial
| discrimination in the California
State National guard received the
unanimous approval of the senate
here last week, just as it had in
the assembly. The senate voted
29-0 in favor of the measure.
It is now on its way to Gov
ernor Warren, who has already
i announced he will sign it and
see that the law is put into ac
tion. The adjutant general of the
| state militia announced similar
intentions.
Th$ measure bans segregation
and discrimination in the state
guard because of race, color,
creed or national origin. An
amendment gives the governor
reasonable discretion as to the
time required to effectuate changes
without impairing efficiency or
morale of the militia.”
The bill is patterned after the
New York law.
Bell Telephone
Hires Two More
At Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (ANP).
Two colored girls were added to
the corps of operators at the
Northwest Bell Telephone com
pany here last week to bring the
number of Negro “hello” girls to
four.
The two new girls are Miss
Vivian Patterson and Miss Shir
I ley Kyle. Both were hired through
I the aid of the Minneapolis Urban
league.
They began training June 27
for their jobs. The first two Negro
girls were employed July 8, 1946.
They were Jewel Beck and Car
j men Allen Davis.
Our Honor Roll
The following is a list of those
who are New Subscribers or have
Renewed their subscription to THE
VOICE.
How does your Subscription
Stand?
Mrs. Connie Winston.
Mrs. Clayton Lewis.
Mrs. Walter Bell.
Mrs. Maurice Copeland.
Mrs. Lela Becks, Beatrice, Neb.
Mr. Sanford Hern, Hamburg, la.
Mr. R. E. Colin.
Mrs. Mattie D. Brown. Bivins. Texas
Mrs Mollle Lankford, New York City
Mr. J. H Polick.
Mr. W. A. Lynn.
Miss Florence Reed, Detroit, Mich
i Mr. A. lil. Simms.
Texas Gets Anti-Lynch Law
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Newman Bible
School Closes
Friday Night
The Vacation Bible school which
has been held at Newman Meth
odist church for the last two
weeks, will close with exercises to
be held Friday evening at 7:30
in the church auditorium. The
school has had over fifty chil
dren enrolled and has been
under the direction of Mrs. Goos
by, Omaha, extension worker of
the Methodist board of education.
Kindergarten classes have been
taught by Misses Dorothy Greene
and Emma White. Maxine Stith
has instructed the primary chil
dren and Mrs. Marie Collins, the
juniors.
The classwork has been varied,
with handcraft and scrapbooks
and supervised play adding to
Bible stories and prayers. Robbie
Powell has been in charge of the
music. •
The public in invited to attend
the closing exercises says Mrs. |
William Greene, wife of the pas
tor.
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South Africa
i
Lets Bars Down
For AME Bishop.
CAPETOWN, South Africa.
(ANP). Bishop Bonner, superin
tendent of the two South African
districts of the African Methodist
Episcopal church, arrived here
on the S. S. Athlone Castle.
Bishop Bonner .vas elected to
serve in Africa at the last general
conference of the denomination
which met in Kansas City in May,
1948.
Ministers and officials of the
church with women members of
the congregations wearing leo
| pard skin hats, led by Dr. Francis
F. H. Gow, African Methodist
leader, widely known in the
United States, met Bishop Bonner
at the dock.
This is Bishop Bonner’s first
charge. He comes from the state
of Alabama, he said. Asked what
tribe his forebears hailed from,
Bishop Bonner smiled and said he
wouldn’t be knowing but it must
| have been a pretty tall tribe since
he himself was six feet four inches
tall.
Queried as to how long he ex
pected to remain in South Africa,
Bishop Bonner said “six months,”
according to the reporter from the
daily Argus.
Lancaster Polio
Chairman For
1949-50 Named
Dr. Harold Arnold succeeded
Dr. Kenneth E. Hollatid as
chairman of the Lancaster County
chapter of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis at a
| meeting of the association held at
I the YMCA July 12. In his report
Dr. Holland noted that there had
only been one case of polio in the
county.
Last year, $11,555 was spent on
new cases in Lancaster county
with an additional $2,239 in treat
ment for old cases between June
and December. This brought the
total amount spent by the local
unit for polio treatments to $24,
096 for the year 1946. j
Gov. Jester Signs Measure
With Stiff Penalties For
Mobsters Who Wound, Kill
AUSTIN, Tex. (ANP). An anti- ]
lynching bill, carrying severe pen
alties for persons taking part in
m n iniiiiii i iiw-t ...if -in
I_BJI
—Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
Gov. Beauford Jester
Jail KKK Official
For Withholding
Klan Records
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ANP).
William Hugh Morris, director of
the Federated Ku Klux Klan, inc.,
, was sentenced to jail here Friday,
July 8 for refusing to turn Klan
records over to a grand jury
which is probing into mob vio
lence in Jefferson county. Wil
liams, sentenced by Judge Rob
ert J. Wheller until he produces
the records, said his refusal was
based on his belief that the pa
pers had nothing to do with the
investigation.
The grand jury probe started
July 1, with a county grand jury
opening an inquiry into the inva
sion of a cafe by 60 white
sheeted men. At the start of the
hearing, three more Alabama flog
gings were reported and in ad
dition two state investigators re
ported the disruption of a KKK
meeting near Lineville.
Several high Klan officials have
testified before the grand jury.
Among them are Dr. E. P. Pruitt,
chairman of the board of gov
ernors of the federation; Dr. John
R. Jones, secretary; E. E. Camp
bell.
Mrs. Walt White
Gets Divorce
In Mexico
JUAREZ, Mexico. (ANP). Ru
mors that Walter White, execu
tive secretary of the NAACP, and
his wife were divorced were con
firmed here last week when it
was revealed that Mrs. White was
granted an uncontested divorce
in Juarez June 30.
Mrs. White still has “the ut
| most respect for Mr. White,” ac
cording to a statement issued in
her behalf. Her suit was filed
on a claim that she and her hus
band could not agree on family
matters.
Married for 27 years, they have
two children, Jane and Walter
jr., a property settlement agree
able to both was made.
Mrs. White spent three months
in Mexico before obtaining her
divorce. Both she and her hus
band had cori$inually denied di
vorce rumors.
mob action that results in death,
was signed into law last week
by Gov. Beauford H. Jester. The
bill, an emergency measure passed
by the legislature at the governor’s
request, provides punishment for
two degrees of lynching.
One specifies death or impris
onment of not less than five years
for persons convicted of participa
tion in unlawful assembly result
ing in the death of a person or
persons. The other gives impris
onment of not less than a year or
more than ten for mob members
who shoot, stab, cut, maim or
wound victims but do not kill
them.
Any act of violence upon any
persons resulting in death is de
fined as a lynching. The district
attorney in the area in which
lynching occurs is charged with
investigation and prosecution, and
is also empowered to seek help
j from other sources. The governor
has the right to spend such
amounts as needed to apprehend
lynchers. Persons convicted under
the act are also subject to civil
liability.
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National Urban
League Reviews
Pool Tensions
NEW YORK. (ANP). The Na
tional Urban league issued a
statement here last week review
ing the anti-Negro tensions which
have cropped up during recent
weeks in the three widely-sepa
rated areas of St. Louis, Washing
ton, D. C., and Youngstown, O.
The statement, entitled “An
Urgent Call to Action To En
force The Rights of All Citizens—
Without Discrimination—To Use
Publicly Owned and Operated
Recreation Facilities,” charged
that flare-ups between Negroes
and whites were “planned, insti
gated and fomented” by employes
entrusted to maintain discipline
at the swimming pools.
None of the cities have laws,
ordinances or rules denying the
free use of facilities by citizens
because of race, creed or color.
Said the league:
“Each incident points up the
utter failure on the part of public
officials intelligently to protect
the rights and privileges of Negro
citizens to use publicly-owned
and operated facilities."
In St. Louis, despite an order
from the director of public wel
fare to the director of parks and
playgrounds that Negroes be per
mitted to use municipal pools,
employes at the pools “threatened
to walk off their jobs if Negroes
were admitted.” This action ap
parently persuaded white youths
to attack Negroes.
The Urban league looked upon
this tension as creating “general
unrest among Negroes for fear of
similar clashes in their other re
lationships in the community.” It
outlined a three-point program
which called for (1) conferences
with city officials, (2) enforce
ment of state and city laws against
discrimination and segregation,
and *(3) the request that news
papers and radio editors give un
biased presentations of facts in
volved in any disturbances which
might occur.
