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No. y,, - ( ... Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, December 8, 1949
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By Alice A. Dunnigan
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Now that all the hubbub of
the Congressional election is over, the President hopes
to swim, fish, stroll on the beach, and just relax with his
family during his three-week vacation at Key West, Fla.
Between periods of relaxation, however, the busy President
expects to draft his State of the Union message for pre
sentation to Congress when it reconvenes in January.
The sentiment expressed by r
voters on Nov. 8 in electing fed
eral. state and local officers re- !
newed Mr. Truman’s determina- j
tion to urge Congress to enact
his Fair Deal program.
FEPC Major Issue
A group of organizations sup
J porting the administration’s civil
. rights program revealed recently
: in a meeting held in New York,
that the White House strategists
have decided to make fair em
ployment practices the major civil
rights issue.
This bill has passed both the
House and Senate committees and
is now ready for the floor action.
The pros and cons on the passage
of fair employment practices leg
islation have been presented to
Congress from every possible an
gle, through 10 full days of hear
ings held before a special subcom- 1
mittee of the House committee on
Education and Labor, under the
chairmanship of Cong. Adam
Clayton Powell, Democrat of
New York.
During the hearings, represent
atives from industry, labor, gov
ernment as well as church, pro
fessional and civic groups gave
testimony on this measure suffi
cient to fill nearly 600 printed
pages.
The more than 800 printed
pages of testimony resulting from
similar hearings before a sub-'
committee of the Senate Labor
and Public Welfare committee last
year made it unnecessary for the
Senate to hold more hearings this
year.
Not a single tap has been left
unturned by either the Senate
or the House in exploring every
angle of the FEPC question,
therefore, it is expedient that the
administration should force a
showdown on this measure when
congress comes back in session in I
January.
By presenting the bill, the new
cloture rule now in force in the
Senate, will get a try out. This
rule which requires 64 votes to
end filibuster was steamrolled
through the first session of Con
gress by a coalition of Dixiecrat
Republican voters, outlawing a
ruling by Vice President Barkley
that a majority was necessary to
impose cloture.
The administration’s fight for
FEPC is expected to be spear
headed by Sen. Scott Lucas of
Illinois and Francis Meyers of
Pennsylvania
President Praises Congress
A report released this month
showed that during the first ses
sion of Congress, the Senate
stayed in session 186 days or
1,144 hours and 53 minutes; while
the House was in session for 165
days amounting to 704 hours and
10 minutes.
The results of this 10-month
session are recorded in the 22,566
printed pages of the Congressional
Record. During the first session
793 bills were enacted into law,
with 32 bills vetoed and seven
still in conference. A total of
10,627 measures were introduced
last session. The first half of
the 81st Congress received 55,311
nominations for appointments,
54,869 of which were confirmed
with only two rejected. Thirty
nine nominees withdrew, leaving
401 unconfirmed at present.
Congressional Outlook
It is generally thought that
President Truman’s Fair Deal
program will get a psychological
boost in the next session because
of the 1950 congressional elections.
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Mrs. K. Patterson
Is Nurse’s Aid At
Bryan Hospital
Mrs. Katherine Davis Patterson.
2118 “T” street, has been added
to the personnel at Bryan Me
morial hospital as a nurse’s aid
since Dec. 2. Mrs. Patterson is a
Lincoln product, having graduated
from Lincoln high in 1940. Later
she moved to Minneapolis where
she married Mr. Patterson. She
completed her training in Minne
apolis and worked at General hos -
pital there for nine months as an
aid before returning to Lincoln
this year.
Newman Church
Dedicates Organ
Sunday, Dec. 11
Newman Memorial Methodist
church will dedicate its recently
acquired electric organ at special
services Sunday, Dec. 11, at 3:30
p. m. The program will be main
ly musical and furnished by the
Newman choir and participants
from Grace Methodist church.
Speaker for the occasion will be
Dr. Frank A. Court. Mrs. Mary
McWilliams will be the organist
for the occasion according to Rev.
William A. Greene, pastor of the
church.
On Dec. 18, the choir will pres
ent its annual Christmas program.
Varied Histories
Made In Alamo
Stadium Recently
By U. J. Andrews.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (ANP).
History was made Thanksgiving
night in Alamo stadium here
when the Phillis Wheatley-Solo
mon M. Coles of Corpus Christi
high school football game was
televised by station WOAI, Na
tional Broadcasting company
outlet.
It marked the first time that
any “live” football game had been
televised in Alamo stadium or in
San Antonio, and it was also the
first time that any Negro game
had been televised in Texas, in
the Southwest or in the South.
So far as could be immediately
ascertained, it was the first all
Negro game put on television in
the United States.
The Wheatley gridders did a
little history-making on the field.
In thumping the Coles Green Hor
nets, 32-0 before 5,500 fans,
Wheatley ran up the largest score
in the history of this traditionally
bitter series.
White Tells World Impact
Of U.5. Racism At Convo
O’Dwyer Says
Bo’s Death is
End of An Era
By Mark Hyman.
NEW YORK. (ANP). Bill (Bo
jangles) Robinson starred in his
last great act last Monday when
2,000,000 New Yorkers saw his
final ride from the 372nd
Armory at 142d St., and Lennox
ave., to Abyssinian Baptist church,
138th st. and 7th ave. and finally
down to Duffy’s square and to
his final resting place at Ever
green, a few miles outside of
Brooklyn.
His last show .was a star
studded one with such support
ing actors as Milton Berle, “Mr.
Television Himself”; Jimmy Du
rante, comedian of a score of
hits; Ethel Merman of Broad
way’s “Annie Get Your Gun”;
Danny Kaye, internationally
famous comedian of stage, screen,
radio and camp shows; Ed Sulli
van, syndicate columnist and tele
vision show producer; William C.
Handy, acknowledged “Daddy of
the Blues”; J. Rosamond Johnson,
musician and brother of the late
James Weldon Johnson.
In everything connected with
Robinson’s last hours on earth
were stars, stars and more stars.
Even before he passed at the hos
pital where he had been confined
for a week, wires came in from
President Harry S. Truman,
Marty Forkin, his life-long man
ager; the Mayor of Richmond,
Va„ who called him a “native
son”; Danny Thomas, Mayor Wil
liam O’Dwyer of New York, and
15.000 more. A wire came from
an unknown town in North Da
kota which was addressed to
“Bojangles, New York City.”
At the armory where Bill lay
in state for 24 hours, more than
38.000 persons viewed his body.
The flowers covered an entire side
of the buildings’ wall. They came
from his former wife, Fannie
Robinson Dabney; from the Cot
ton Club girls composed of Amy
Gladys Bryant, Elida Webb,
Edna Mae Harris, Billie Beau,
Gladys Bryant, Elida Webb,
Evelyn Sheppard, Vivian Rich,
RKO pictures, The Actors Fund
of America, and a score of in
dividuals.
Students Get
Leadership
Certificates
The final session of the Lead
ers’ Workshop, which was held at
the Y.W.C.A., under the auspices
of the Council of Social Agencies
was held Thursday evening, Dec.
1st. Certificates for achievement
were presented persons who had
attended four of the five meetings.
Among persons receiving certifi
cates were Betty Wilson, Dorothy
Greene and Mrs. Melvin L.
Shakespeare*
The Workshop series of Leader
ship training courses are designed
to increase the effectiveness of
group dynamics. The classes were
divided into age groups to ascer
tain the basic needs of individuals.
Instructors were specialists in
their fields and were called from
the University of Nebraska and
the public schools of the city.
Sen. Wherry Scored For Aid
To Cloture Rule Filibuster
“The struggle between East and West is twofold: The
struggle between ideologies and the struggle for economic
prowess—for raw materials,” Dr. Walter White told a Uni
versity of Nebraska convocation Dec. 2. Speaking to one of
the largest voluntary-attendance convocations, estimated
at about 900 students, on the subject, “Abraham Lincoln’s
Unfinished Business,” Dr. White presented the world-wide
political and economic aspects of racial segregation and
discrimination in the United
States. Well qualified to speak
on the matter, having only re
cently returned from a world tour
with the Town Hall Seminar, he
pointed out that the Russian com
munists seize every opportunity
to point out to nations of darker
skinned people the injustices done
American Negroes, Mexicans,
Jews and Indians, as part of an
ideological war which Russian
seems to be winning in Africa
and the Near and Far East. “Rus
sia is not ready to fight a war”
he said, “but it is winning one
more effectively than with A
bombs.
“Because of the speed of mod
ern transportation, areas once un
important are now strategic for
the defense of the nation in a war
emergency.
“India occupies a unique posi
tion in the balance of power in
Asia,” he said, and paid tribute
to Prime Minister Nehru whom
he characterized as “hard headed,
practical, and looking forward to
a free world.” India is under
varied pressures which strain her
economy, and if she falls to red
Russia, the whole of Asia will fall
to the Bear, and our last line of
defense will swing from Formosa
to Hawaii on the West Coast. We
would not only loose access to
the valuable and essential raw
materials there, but also the sup
port of the hundreds of millions
of people. He pointed out that a
plan is about to be put into ef
fect to. share excess corn and
wheat with economically back
ward countries.
He scored Sen. Kenneth Wherry
for his stand against civil rights
legislation and linked his name
with that of Sen. Russell of
Georgia in the Senate rules de
bate last year.
“Since Hiroshima,” he began
summing up “we are all in the
same boat together, we cannot af
ford to deny any American be
cause of his race or religion. Dr.
; White then urged students to
search their hearts and think
through their prejudices. Amer
ican treatment of its minorities
may well determine who will be
our alliances in the war for free
dom.
Atlanta Editor Named
To Trustee Board At
Tuskegee Institute
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
(ANP). Ralph McGill, editor of
the Atlanta Constitution, was
elected to membership on the
board of trustees of Tuskegee in
stitute here recently.
A native of Tennessee, McGill
began newspaper work with the
Nashville Banner as a sports
writer. He joined the Atlanta
Constitution in 1929 and became
editor in 1941.
Architect
Petite Mrs. Louise Harris-Brown
of Chicago holds the distinction of
being the second Negro woman li
censed architect in the United
States. Mrs. Brown, who is a
graduate of the University of
Kansas, works for K. Roderick
O’Neal, outstanding Chicago arch
itect. She describes her most ex
citing experience as working on
reinforced concrete and multi
storyed apartment buildings de
signed by the famous Mies Van
der Rohe. (ANP).
Anna Hayden
Williams io Give
Concert Dee. 16
Mrs. Anna Hayden Williams,
talented soprano, will be pre
sented in a recital at the Urban
League building on December 16.
Mrs. Williams became noticed
as a singer as early as 1940. While
still in High School, she won first
place in the “Golden Voice” con
test in Dallas, Tex. Later she at
tended Bishop College in Mar
shall, Tex. and represented the
school, as a soloist on many oc
casions.
She has also studied under Con
rad Boos at the Juilliard School of
Music and at present is studying
under the direction of Dr. Arthur
Westbrook at the University of
Nebraska. Mrs. Williams has given
numerous recitals throughout the
country and was second place
winner of the “Voices of Tomor
row” contest, the annual midwest
music festival, for 1947 and 1948.
The recital is sponsored by Mt.
Zion Baptist church.
Quinn Chapel to Have
Food Sale af Hardy’s
The Women’s Missionary society
of Quinn Chapel AME church
will hold a food bazaar at the
Hardy Furniture company, 1314
O street, from 10 till 5 p. m. ori
Saturday, Dec. 10. Mrs. Jennie
Edwards, in making the an
nouncement of the event, said
that it was the first time in many
years that they had sponsored
such a sale downtown. Some of
Lincoln’s best cooks are prepar
ing their most delicious recipes tor
ham or turkey dinners.
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