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PLAN DORIE MILLER PROGRAM—Elmer L. Fowler of Chicago,
111., (left) president of the Dorie Miller Memorial Foundation, Inc.,
discusses plans for a Dorie Miller program in Kansas City, Mo.,
with Dr. D. A. Holmes, prominent pastor of the Paseo Baptist church
in Kansas City. The foundation is making plans to buy a $200,000
building in Chicago to carry out its purpose of promoting better
youth. (ANP)
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AME Churchmen Attending
29th Nebraska Conference
Yesterday, September 28th, the 29th Nebraska Annual
Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal churcji
opened its sessions at Trinity AME Church in Kansas City,
Kansas. The conference is under the direction of the Rt. Rev.
D. Ormonde Walker of Buffalo,
N. Y., and includes AME churches
in Nebraska and eastern Kansas.
Rev. J. B. Brooks, pastor at
Quinn Chapel, said that the con
ference will discuss and act on
recommendations for social ac
tion'* and civil rights legislation,
including a federal aid to educa
tion bill, which are included in
his report on The State of the
Church.
Other ministers residing in Lin
coln who are attending the con
ference are the Rev. Melvin L.
Shakespeare (Elwood, Kansas)
who will report on Temperance,
Rev. Belva Spicer (Grand Island
Hastings) who will report on
Sunday schools, Rev. John L.
Humbert, Rev. John C. Foster
(Beatrice) and Rev. Eugene Ed
wards. Dr. John Adams, Omaha,
presiding elder of the Omaha dis
trict of the church and state sen
ator, is also in attendance.
Clayton P. Lewis has been ap
pointed the congregation’s lay
delegate; Mrs. Jennie Edwards is
Women’s Missionary society dele
gate and Mrs. Maude Johnson is
alternate. Laymen have chartered
a bus to Kansas City for October
1, so that a delegation of Quinn
Chapelites may attend the clos
ing session of the conference on
Sunday, October 2nd.
Plan Party For
Students of All
Lincoln Campuses
The Lincoln Urban League has
announced that an all-university
party is planned for students from
all university and college cam
puses in Lincoln for Saturday
evening, October 1. Mrs. Sara
Walker, group wo:.k director listed
the general planning committee
as followsu Alfred B. Grice, chair
man, Jeanne Malone, Florentine
Crawford, Stanley Cooke, Anita
Smith, Phyllis Holcomb and Ed
Harris.
Mrs. A. J. Sellers
Taken by Death
Mrs. Mary Alice Sellers, 3941
No. 35th, died Sunday afternoon.
She was the widow of Albert J.
Sellers who died in December,
1930.
She was bom in Chillicothe,
Mo.
Surviving is a brother, Charles
Clark of Chillicothe.
Ethiopia Celebrates
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia. (ANI^).
New Year’s day, 1941, was cele
brated throughout Ethiopia last
Sept. 11. This seemingly lapse of
eight years before observing the
beginning of the year 1941 results
from the fact that the country
keeps a calendar all its own.
Emperor Haile Selassie held
Veteran Must Prove That Added
Schooling Is Essential For Job
In compliance with recent legis
lation the Veterans Administra
tion announced additional re
quirements now in effect for
training undar the G. I. bill.
General changes include these
requirements: *
1. Veterans making original ap
plication for eligibility must
name his intended course of study
and school he wishes to attend.
2. A veteran who has completed
or discontinued a course must
now prove to the VA’s satisfac
tion that further training is es
sentional to his employment.
3. Veterans s in training who
want to change their course of
study must prove to the VA’s sat
isfaction that the new course is
essential to employment.
Veterans not affected by the
changes are those now re-enter
ing the same school for the same
course of study following a sum
mer vacation or those who have
changes courses or schools and
have received supplemental cer
tificates of eligibility to do so
prior to November 1, 1949.
Ashley Westmoreland, Lincoln
Regional Office Manager, said,
“the new tequirements are pri
marily intended to restrict a vet
eran who completes for example,
a two-year mechanic’s course and
then starts wondering what he
can do with the balance of his
eligibility. But now, from that
point on, any other training is
considered avocational until he
can prove that it’s essential to his
job as a mechanic.
In the past, veterans were not
asked to list the specific course
or school in applications for G.I.
training. This meant their cer
tificates of eligibility could be
used for almost any course. in
any institution that had G.I. bill
approval.”
“In August, however, a law
was passed making it illegal to
take so-called ‘hobby’ courses in
schools not in existence for at
least one year.
“Requiring prospective G. I.
trainees to list courses and schools
is designed to help screen appli
cations and prevent veterans
from taking courses at govern
ment expense which have been
prohibited by law,” Westmore
land said.
HOUSEWIVES MEET IN DETROIT—Shown above are delegates to the National Convention of the
National Housewives league which met in Detroit recently at the same time as the National Negro
Business league’s convention. Mrs. Christina Fuqua, president of the housewives league, can be seen
in the front row, right center, i n white dress and shoes. (ANP)
Dawson Sends
Group Behind
‘Iron Curtain’
WASHINGTON. (ANP). A
subcommittee from the Committee
on Federal expenditures of which
Cong. William L. Dawson of Chi
cago is chairman, left Washing
ton airport Wednesday to fly to
Europe. Congressman Dawson
was on hand to see them off and
bid them bon voyage.
The group is to visit all of the
countries where U. S. money is
being spent for health, children’s
welfare and in other ways. Un
like ECA - this includes many
countries which are Russian
dominated and are behind the
“iron curtain” as they are desig
nated.
As a rule the Russians have
refused permission for American
observers to go into their coun
try. The committee named by
Cpngressman Dawson, however,
will have entree for either it goes
in or the United Stales will cut
off the monetary aid. “At last,”
the congressman remarked, as
the Constellation soared into the
sky, “we are going to have some
official observers to come back
and tell us just what things be
hind the iron curtain are like.”
open house at his palace on the
day and 1,000 sheep were slaugh
tered for the traditional New
I Year’s day feast of raw mutton.
Demand Negroes
Get Fair Divvy of
Farm Housing Aid
WASHINGTON—(ANP)—Full participation by Negro
farmers in the rural housing program under the new federal
housing act was demanded by Dr. F. D. Patterson, president
of Tuskegee institute, and Claude a! Barnett, Chicago, in
conference with officials responsible for the administration
of rural housing. t
Both men, who are special assistants to the Secretary
of Agriculture, were assured that full attention would be
given to protecting the rights of minority groups in the
housing program.
Secretary of Agriculture Bran
nan suggested that special funds
be earmarked to assure equitable
provision in the program op the
part of Negro farmers in the
south and also for inclusion of
technically trained Negro • per
sonnel in administrative, techni
cal, and supervisory relation
ships.
Raub Snyder, assistant ad
ministrator to Dillard B. Las
seter of Farmers Home adminis
tration, declared that adminis
trative details for the new pro
gram were now being worked
out. He said minority groups
would get full attention to their
needs.
A special contribution to the
meeting was made by Dr. Pat
terson who suggested a low cost
housing plan that Tuskegee has
experimented with for several
years. In this scheme farmers ur#^
native materials and sand gravel
to make concrete blocks in their
spare time.
Under this farmer self-help
plan which has worked so well
in the 'Juskegee area, Dr. Patter
son pointed out, low cost housing
can be achieved more easily in
the rural areas. It would con
ceivably play an important role
in housing low income families
of the nation.
Rev. J. W. Simpson
Is New Pastor For
CME Church Here
The Rev. J. W. Simpson
has been recently named pastor
of the Colored Methodist Episco
pal congregation for the coming
year. Earlier this month Rev. Mr.
Simpson was transferred from the
Illinois conference of his connec
tion to the Missouri-Kansas con
ference from which he was as
signed.
He arrived in Lincoln Septem
ber 24 and resides with Mr. and
Mrs. James Fuller, 2244 S street.
Rev. Mr. Simpson says that he will
hold his first services on Sun
day, October 2 at the Urban
League building.
To Study in London
MISS MARY LEE BROWN, direc
tor of Public Health Nursing and
associate professor of Nursing
Education at Meharry Medical
college, was awarded a Common
wealth fund’s fellowship recently
for study in Europe. Miss Brown
sailed on the Queen Elizabeth
Sept. 21 for a year’s study on the *
Social Aspects of the Medical Care
program in Great Britain under
the director of the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She was appointed recently a
member of the Basic Non-Colle
giate Board of Reviews for the
National Nursing Accrediting
service in New York City. (ANP)
‘Amercia’s Negro
Women’ Has 9tli
Performance
A • large interracial audience
witnessed the ninth performance
of “America’s Negro Women” at
the Arcadia theater here last
week. The historical pageant was
written by Fayette Bowen
Brown, Kansas composer and
well-known signer. The produc
tion uses a chorus of 100 and a
cast of 50, all women and has
played to audiences in the larger
Kansas cities and is scheduled for
Missouri, Illinois and California,
presentation before the end of
Spring. The pageant deals with
the outstanding contributions of
Negro women from the 16th cen
tury to the present and portrays
such heroines as Phyllis Wheatly,
Sojourner Truth, Mary Bethune,
Emma Clement and many others.
Fayette Bowen-Brown’s next
production of America’s Negro
Women is scheduled for St. Louis
on October 14.
Bill Butcher Is
New Manager of
The Cuddle Inn
Mr. William (Bill) Butcher has
recently taken over the manage
ment of The Cuddle Inn, popular
rendevouz of the younger sets. It
seems that Bill’s specialty is go
ing to be rather sumptious sand
wiches made from a variety of
barbequed meats.
“The only way that you can
keep a good man down is to sit
on him, “but then you have to
get on his level.”—Trago M«WH
liams.