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Bundle. Nehru, Among Those
Nominated For Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway. (ANP). Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, director
of the UN Trusteeship council, and Pandit Jawahariah
Nehru, prime minister of India, were among the 28 persons
nominated here last week for the 1950 Nobel Peace prize.
Six institutions, all international in scope, were also nom
nated.
The nomination of Dr. Bunche
for the award, which last year
was worth $21,889.30, was based
on his success in negotiating the
armistice settlements in Pales
tine while serving as UN media
tor between the Arabs and the
Jews.
The prize, normally awarded
in October was established by
the will of the late Alfred B.
Nobel. Swedish inventor of dy
namite, as an annual award to
the person or institution who did
the most to further the cause of
peace thruout the world. Can
didates for the award may be
nominated by governments of
nations: members of the Norwe
gian Nobel committee; profes
sors of philosophy, economics or
current history: institutions or
individual previously awarded
the prize and several interna
tional organizations.
Among others nominated are
President Truman, Winston
ChurchiU, Gen. George C. Mar
shall, former secretary of state:
Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, former ex
ternal affairs minister of Aus
tralia and former president of
the UN General assembly; and
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chan
cellor of the University of Chi
cago. Last year’s award went
to Lord Boyd Orr of Scotland,
president of the movement for
World Federal government and
former head of the UN Food and
Agriculture organization.
Prejudice In
Bowling Scored
By Big Papers
By Lnix Overbea
CHICAGO. (ANPj. The next
sport to be democratized prob
ably will be bowling. Although
much has been written by news
papers, both Negro and white,
about the "Caucasians only’'
clause of the American Bowling
congress, nothing has e\ er been
done until the past two weeks
when two of the nation’s largest
dailies .ook action.
Two Hearst newspapers, the
New York Journal-American and
the Chicago Herald-American
acted by announcing the discon
tinuance of their regular bowling
tournaments because of the ABC’s
un-American clause.
In dropping the meets it. New
York, Bill Corum wrote in the
Journal-American:
"If all Americans can’t play,
• we don’t want to play either ...
"Any championship not de
signed to produce the true cham
pion is not. and cannot be. a true
championship. For that is the
basic assumption* the keystone, on
which all sports are founded. So
that when any potential contest
ant is barred by reason of creed,
race, color or other bias, they are
not true sports esents, either, and
most certainly, they are not truly
» American.
"What American, once he came
to think about it, would want to
be the champion of any sport
where a better man was barred?”
The Chicago Herald-, jnerican
not only had halted its men’s
tourney, but also its women’s
meets in which it was a pioneer.
The Women's International Bowl
KLMS To Air
Big League
Games Locally
LINCOLN. — Radio Station
KLMS of Lincoln will carry
play-by-play broadcasts of Na
tional and American League
baseball games. The series
started Saturday, March 4.
General Manager Russell
Joynt announced that KLMS
will carry games broadcast by
the new, coast-to-coast Liberty
Network. On Saturday, Joynt
said, the major league teams
start playing exhibition games.
The regular season opens April
18.
Joynt said the games will be
carried seven days a week, and
will usually start at 12:30 p. m.
Altogether. KLMS will air 208
daytime major league games this
year.
According to Joynt, the game
broadcast by KLMS will be the
leading one of the day. whether
played in the National or Amer
ican league.
All games carried by KLMS
will be broadcast simultan „*ousl>
with play on the field. KLMS,
heard at 1480. is one of more
than 150 stations in 33 states
which will carry the Liberty
Network games
Youngdahl Call •
Off Fla. Match:
Morrill Recants
ST. PAUL, Minn. (ANP). A
college president who refused to
let a Negro member of his box
ing team go to Florida with the
team because of Jim Crow ring
rules there, has apologized pub
licly for his deed.
Dr. James L. Morrill, presi
dent of the University of Minne
sota, last week made the apology
after William McMoore. member
of the football and boxing
squads, had stayed behind when
the pugilistic team went to face
the Miami university team.
McMoore. a light heavyweight,
is a native of Texas wHo joined
the team after the close oP the
football season. The incident
gained national attention when
Gov. Luther W. Youngdahl of
Minnesota demanded the cancel
lation of the meet in a telegram
to Dr. Morrill. Governor Young
dahl wrote:
‘•Information has come to me
that the University of Minnesota
will bar an eligible student from
competing as a member of its
boxing team in scheduled be
cause he is Negro.”
At first the school denied the
charge, then Dr. Morrill an
nounced his apology.
ing congress also has discrim
inatory laws similar to those of
the ABC. Writing in this news
paper Davis J. W7alsh said:
“It is regret that the Herald
American feels it must discon
tinue sponsorship of women’s
bowling, so long as the WIBC
j follows the American Bowling
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A "’hand Passes Rights
Code; Law Has Penalty
Urban League
Job Clinic Is
Friday, March 17
Friday night, March 17, the
Lincoln Urban League is spon
soring its annual Vocational Op
portunity Campaign (VOC) at
its building, 2030 T, street. Ac
cording to John C. Foster, chair
man of the event, one of the
most important and of great in
terest to young people on the
League’s calendar, a number of
successful people have been con
tacted to counsel young people
about entering the various
trades and professions they rep
resent. Another feature of the
program will be a forum on jobs
and job opportunities followed
by a motion picture on how to
get and hold employment.
A large number have attended
the meets in past years and
more are expected for this year’s
clinic.
Bishop Shaw
Cites Church’s
Contribution
“The church is better today
than it ever has been in the
past,” said Bishop Alexander P.
Shaw as he addressed the con
gregation at Newman Methodist
church last Sunday afternoon.
In his characteristically easy-go
ing method of delivery, the Bal
timore prelate said that people
were more important to the suc
cess of the church than material
things.
Bishop Shaw cited the Bible
and the hymn book as the sig
nificant contributions of the
church to its followers, stating
that the teachings contained
have had a marked influence
on the progess of mankind.
But Bishop Shaw did point
out the need for Christian stew
ardship. “The Lord loveth a
cheerful giver,” he asserted, then
added. “—and hates a stingy
one.”
Sunday evening Bishop Shaw
spoke to a large audience at St.
Paul church in the evening as
one in a series of speakers
scheduled for Lenten appear
ances.
Girl Scouts To
Sell Nuts At
Gold's Saturday
Girl Scouts will have a booth
at Gold’s department store on
Saturday morning, March 11,
where they will sell high qual
ity peanuts, said Mrs. Sara
Walker, Girl Scout supervisor at
the Urban League. The project
was begun last year. The pro
ceeds this year will go to help
complete development of the
Girls Scout camp, Canp-Catron,
in Nebraska City.
Mattie Sue Nevels and Rose
Lee Nevels will make sales from
10-12 a. m.
With the possible exception of
Herbert Hoover, George Washing
ton was the United States’ wealth
iest president.
PORTLAND, Ore. (ANP)
Lee and the four Commissione
of Portland, voted unanimous]
a civil rights ordinance mal<
restaurant or other public plac
to anyone because of race or re
ligion.
The action of the council came
on the same day that Portland
was honored by the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews as the Brotherhood City for
1950—the city which made the
most progress in human relations
during 1949. Presentation of a
plaque was made to Mayor Lee
at a banquet Tuesday night.
The enactment of the ordinance
came at the close of a lengthy
morning session of the council at
which 30 speakers representing
civic, labor, religious and po
litical groups were heard in favor
of the law and four in opposition.
The council chambers, packed
with some 350 persons, rang with
applause as the council completed
its voting.
The city which was outstanding
for its bad race relations a few
years ago became the second city
in th*3 nation to ban discrimina
tion against minority groups in
its public places. It was preceded
in this action by Philadelphia
Expressions of jubilation over
passage of the measure came
from the Rev. Myron C. Cole,
chairman of the mayor’s commit
tee on mtergroup relations and
head of the United Committee for
Civic Rights, and from Edwin C.
Berry executive secretary of the
Urban League of Portland both of
whom worked tirelessly to mob- j
ilize the community behind Mayer |
. Mayor Dorothy McCullough
rs, making up the City Council
y Tuesday afternoon to enact
:ing it illegal for any hotel,
e of business to refuse service
Lee in her efforts to improve hu
man relations in the city.
Said Berry:
“The unanimous passage of this
ordinance by the council of Port
land, indicates indubitably that
our community is worthy ol the
award made by the National Con
ference of Christians and Jews as
the city most improved in race
relations. This is another step
toward our goal of making Port
land not simply the most im
proved city in intergroup rela
tions, but the nation’s best and
most democratic in this field.
“We have already achieved a
state fair employment law, inte
grated national guard and the
civil rights ordinance, all in a
period of eight months. It is get
ting so bigotry is unpopular in
oui town.”
Opponents to the measure rep
resented the Portland Hotel as
sociation, the Oregon Restaurant
association and the Independent
Hotel association. More than a
score of religious, labor, tax-pay
ing and civic groups favored it.
The ordinance, which will be
come effectivt *0 days from the
time of passage is an amendment
to the police code. Violation
carries maximum penalties of a
$500 fine, 190 days in jail or
both.
The law bans discrimination in
“all placs or businesses offering
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Dr. Edwin R. Embree, Pres.
Of Rosenwald Fund, Dead;
Great Influence For Progress
NEW YORK. (ANP). Edwin R. Embree is dead.
Stricken recently by a heart attack at 66 years of age, the
President of the Julius Rosenwald fund, until it was liqui
dated in 1948, passed away at his apartment in the Hotel
Madison here. He was in conference at the Hotel Plaza
when the sudden attacK came
and his death came a few hours
later.
Dr. Edwin Embree’s passing
brought a shock to countless
thousands of people whose lives
had been touched by his activi
ties. These included many lead
ing Negro and white figures
scholars, educators and profes
sional men and women whose
training had been received in part
through the beneficence of the
Rosenwald fund; to teachers and
students and graduates in the
5,000 Rosenwald schools which
dot every section of the South
land; to the fellows whose educa
tion was topped off by the fel
lowships which the fund granted;
to the co-workers and consult
ants who served with him in the
widespread ramifications of the
fusd and, then, to the readers
of the many books he had au-.
thored, all on the topic of better
racial relationship, a field in
which he had been an epochal
figure.
A Nebraska Son
Dr. Embree was born in Osce
ola, Neb., in 1883, and spent his
early life in Wyoming and Ken
tucky. His grandfather was
president of Berea college in Ken
tucky, which* during Embree’s
boyhood and until the legislature
passed a segregation law, had
both white and Negro students.
He graduated from Yale. He
became a secretary and a vice
president of the Rockefeller foun
dation. He was a trustee of
Sarah Lawrence, Radcliffe and
Roosevelt colleges, and Fisk uni
versity.
His latter years were spent in
disbursing the $22,500,000 fund
left by Julius Rosen wald, late
president of Sears Roebuck &
Co., to benefit mankind.
Two years ago he became di
rector of the Liberia foundation,
which was established by Edward
R. Stettinius, former secretary of
state. Later he became a con
sultant for the Whitney founda
tion of New York, and at the
time of his death was engaged
in developing a program of fel
lowships somewhat on the order
of the former Rosenwald pro
gram.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Kate Scott Clark, and
three children, a son and two
daughters.
His body was cremated in New
York City. Memorial services will
be held at the University of Chi
cago on March 11.