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Tib® V®n<s@ 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 d Street Phone 5-649) It No Answer Call 5-7506 Buhie W. Shakespeare-Advertising and Business Manager Charles QEditor, Y.M.C.A. Rev. /. B. Brooks._ P™11*11"* Manager Mrs. lee -..- ... gareulnttoi Manager Member ot the Associated Negro Press and Nebraska Press Association Entered as Second Class Matter, funs 6. 1947 at the Post Office at Lincoln. Nebraska under the Act of March 3, 1879. i year subscription „, . -.62.00 Single oopy ■ ■ ... 5c EDITORIALS The views expressed in these columns are those ot the writer and not necessarily a reflection of the oolicy of The Voice.— Pub. THE PIGSKIN HUDDLE BY ANP BIG TIME GRIDDERS START OUT WELL Stars in pro football have started out with top playing this year. Joe Perry of the San Fran cisco 49ers, George Taliaferro of the Los Angeles Dons, and Fred (Cannonball) Cooper of the Rich mond Rebels head the list of men proving themselves valuable to their clubs. Injured in training and expected to be out five weeks, Perry re covered sooner than expected. He was the leading ground gainer for both teams as he led the 49ers to a' 42 to 7 victory over the Chicago Hornets in San Francisco. Bob Mike played guard for the 49er«. Paul Patterson played a good game on defense for the Hornets. Coming into the game in the third quarter after Glen Dobbs had been injured, Taliaferro sparked his team to four touch downs as the Dons overwhelmed the Baltimore Colts 49 to 17. He gained 76 yards in seven tries, and tossed two touchdown passes. Also in the Dons’ lineup was John Brown at center and Ben Whaley at guard. Cooper led his team in its first exhibition game of the season to a 32-0 victory over the Atlantic City Reds. He gained 110 yards in six carries and ran 40 yards in punt returns. He scored a touchdown on a 66 yard dash, the longest run of the game. A crowd of 8,000 fans, a large percentage Negro, saw the Rebels feature a Negro player for the first time. Martin Motley and the Cleve land Browns were stopped for three quarters by the Buffalo Bills, but finally rallied in the fourth quarter to gain a 28-28 tie. Ed Conwell did not play with the Bills in this game. Bill Willis and Horace Gillona saw action with the Browns. The Detroit Lions left their three Negro players out of the game as they lost to the cham pion Philadelphia Eagles in an exhibition game in New Orleans. No reason has been given for leaving end Bobby Mann, and backs Mel Groomes end Wall j Triplett out of the game. LINCOLN (PA. TO PLAY EIGHT GAME SCHEDULE The Lincoln Lions under their new coach, Irving Mondschein, will play an eight game schedule this season, which will include Albright college at Reading, Pa., and Lebanon Valley college at Annville, Pa. Lincoln opens its season Sept. 24 against St. Paul’s Technical college at home. Other games scheduled are Delaware State at Dover; Vifginia Union at home; Morgan State, homecoming, and the Nov. 24, the Thanksgiving Day classic with Howard at Temple stadium, Philadelphia. Haywood Allen and Edward Darden at center, and Herman Himes, Joseph Mitchell, Francis McGee at guard. He has one re turning veteran back, Butler Tay lor. HOWARD LOADED WITH VETS Unlike most coaches, Eddie Jackson of Howard is not shed ding those tears during the train ing period these days He has nearly all of his veterans who won seven of nine games last year returning to the team this year. Howard should have its best year since 1926. “If we get past the first three games,” Coach Jackson said, “we may end up with a team as strong as we had at the end of last sea son.” In his starting lineup Jackson can field a proud list of veterans —Charles Gaines and Hillary Thompson at ends, hulking Clar ence Gilks and Bill Brown, both seniors, at tackle, Leon Hill and Otto Jordan at guard, and either Roper McNair or Harry Thomp son holding down center on the line. In the backfield, Chuck Ross, reporting in the peak of condi tion, a sharp passer, at quarter back; Virg Anderson and Ase Abrams, last year’s regulars, «^t the halves, and Bob Minton, de ceptive 190 pound powerhouse, at fullback. Howard will open its season at home against Bluefield State Sept. 24. All home games will be played at Howard stadium, except for the Howard-Morgan classic which will be played at Griffith stadium. W ashingtonBranch AAUW Reinstates 3 Negro Women WASHINGTON. (ANP). Three Negro women, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Miss Otelia Cromwell and Miss Mary E. Cromwell, were re instated in the Washington branch of the American Association of University Women at the national headquarters last Monday night with around 100 women in at tendance. At the same meeting a new president was elected to head up the completely reorganized branch, which is composed only of those members who did not withdraw from the organization when the AAUW convention voted by more than 2,000 to less than 75 to make “educational qualifications the sole require ment for membership.” Saville Auto Co. Dependable Used Cars You will be treated fair Come and Look 1520 P St. 0*4 °it> neb||ska h MMXS C. OLSON, SmfitrinUnJmi •TATI IIITUICU lOCIIfT Each year on the third Sunday in August the former residents and families of former residents of the old Nebraska ghost town of Rock Bluff gather at Hutchin son’s Grove, five miles south of Plattsmouth, for a reunion. In do ing so, they keep alive a colorful but almost forgotten chapter of Nebraska’s history. Though virtually nothing re mains to tell of its former glory, Rock Bluff during territorial days was one of Nebraska’s thriving river towns, and a contender for honors as the metropolis of the trans-Missouri region. According to a map accompany ing an article by Dr. G. H. Gil more of Murray on ghost towns in Cass County (Nebraska His tory, July-Sept., 1937), Rock Bluff was founded Jan. 6, 1856. The town soon developed into an im portant outfitting point for freight wagons crossing the plains, and the Rock Bluff landing was vis ited regularly by Missouri River steamers. A pioneer college, Naomi Institute, flourished for a number of years under the direction of Prof. Joseph Patterson. Perhaps the most notable inci dent in the town’s history is fur nished by the ballot box that went to dinner. In the election of 1866, Nebraska’s voters were deciding whether the territory should be come a state, and if statehood was achieved, whether the first offi cers would be Republican or Democratic. David Butler headed the ticket of the former and J. Sterling Morton the latter. The political parties were quite evenly divided in the territory and the election was close. In Rock Bluff precinct, 107 votes were cast for the Democrats against only 47 for the Repub licans, enough to put Cass County in the Democratic column. The county canvassers decided, how ever, that because the ballot box had been taken to the home of one of the election officials over | the noon hour the votes of Rock Bluff precinct would have to be thrown out. By virtue of this action Cass County went Republican, and its representatives furnished the edge in the legislature that enabled Re publicans to elect Nebraska’s first two United States Senators, John W. Thayer and Thomas W. Tipton. Because of this celebrated case, Rock Bluff achieved a permanent place in Nebraska’s political his tory. When the railroad came through Omaha, however, Rock Bluff like many another river town went into a serious decline, until today it reposes among the rather numerous ghost towns of Cass and other eastern Nebraska counties. TYPEWRITERS ANT MAKE SOLD RENTED REPAIRED , Nebraska Typewriter Co. ( ISO No. lsih St. Phone 2-21A7 Lincoln, Neb. _ i LINOLEUMS TILES METALS SHADES VENETIAN BLINDS EXPERT INSTALLATION AMERICAN LINOLEUM l SHADE CO. 114 No. 14 2-0723 PHONE 2-1777 MANGEL'S Feminine Apporel Pft5 ''O” STREET LINCOLN, NEB* NEGROES START TO SEEK NEW OUTLET Negroes made practically no economic progress during the first generation of their freedom. Because of this, they began to think of ways to escape from this condition. They organized into labor unions and held their first convention of this sort in 1869, i but this wasn’t the answer to their problems. Thousands turned to the ministry, for in this field they felt that they could have the opportunity to attain leadership and independence. Many of these men who turned to the ministry were undesirables and exploited the people, but there were many that were sin cere in their Christian work. Some of the ministers were very successful and did much to aid the Negro in his struggle for “real” citizenship. Then the Negroes began to mi grate to the North in large num bers. The majority of these who migrated during this time went to Kansas. “This movement was organized by two widely known race leaders who thereby at tained distinction. They were Henry Adams of Louisiana and Benjamin, or “Pap” Singleton of Tennessee. By circulation of state ments as to the opportunities in ! the West, these leaders interested between 100,000 and 200,000 Ne groes of the Mississippi Valley, although not more than one fourth or one-fifth of this num ber actually went west. — Carter G Woodsom. 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Armstrong recently re turned home from a visit with her family in Texas. FEPC A ‘Truman Must’ Says Rep. Sabath of Illinois WASHINGTON. (ANP). Rep. A1 Sabath of Illinois said Presi dent Truman has labeled fair employment practices legislation a “must” at this session of Con gress. Sabath is chairman of the powerful house rules committee which virtually controls legisla tion going through the house. The proposed FEPC law is the section of the President’s civil rights program most bitterly fought by the south. i"11" . ■■■■" ~~~ 7, AMERICA’S ! iJL Uhtt • tlMwm • °f room bocomo if* | **r octioo to weother-sealod . that, by Impregiiolo! ( bi-*wiofl bod! ^ 11 - .tv4M| • Mammoth • . ochots hold all adiuetaMo w o yoor outdoor J woods! RWMffls Everything ynu demand in a He-Man jarket. GOLD’S. . Balciny * I. | I I i 1 i i