The Southernaires, popular quartet of radio and concert staee,
are scheduled to appear at St. Paul church March 28. See story
on Pape 3._ _ ___
W herry Promises GOP
Vote For Senate Cloture
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA). Republicans will con
tribute their share of the sixty-four votes necessary to in
voke cloture whenever fair employment practice legislation
is called up in the Senate, Kenneth S. Wherry, of Nebraska,
the Minority Leader, declared recently.
“I think Republicans will be able to muster enough
votes to come within the provisions of the rule to get FEPC
Five Receive
Urban League
Certificates
NEW YORK.—Lloyd K. Garri
son, president ol the National
Urban League, announced that
Certificates of Recognition have
been awarded 300 Americans
from all walks of life. Those re
ceiving the 1949 award were se
lected from nominees from all
parts of the country. An award
committee under the direction of
its chairman, Winthrop Rocke
feller, and the league’s executive.
Director Lester B. Granger. '
made the selection.
The recognition certificates are
presented annually by the Na
tional Urban League, an inter
racial agency devoted to social
welfare and increased economic !
opportunities for Negroes. The
awards are presented during I
the league’s yearly vocational
% j
opportunity campaign, March
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Death Calls W. T.
Sayles* Monument
Setter 25 Years
William Thomas Sayles, sr., 88,
of 4628 W, who worked as a
monument setter for 25 years, •
died Saturday, March 18.
Mr. Sayles was born near
Granville, Mo., but had lived in
Lincoln since 1905.
Surviving are two sons, Wil
liam Thomas, jr., of Lincoln and
Richard of Chicago, a daughter,
Mrs. Helen Lathrop of Chicago;
eight grandchildren, and two
great grandchildren.
Pools to Open
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The
six Washington swimming pools
which created so much furor in
the nation’s capital last summer
will be opened in the spring on
a non-segregated basis, accord
ing to an announcement made
recently by the Secretary of the
Interior Oscar Chapman.
up tor debate, regardless ol what
bill is taken up, whether it is for
compulsory or voluntary FEPC,”
said the Nebraska senator.
Senator Wherry explained that
he meqnt that the Republicans
will be able to furnish the nec
essary votes to shut off debate
on the motion to take up either
the Administration bill or the
McConnell substitute, which the
House recently passed. Both bills
are on the senate calendar, and
it is up to the senate democratic
leadership to move to take up
one of the two measures.
Senator Wherry added that he
did not mean that every senator
who will vote to shut off debate
will vote for either bill.
Under the cloture rule, some
times referred to as the Wherry
rule, the vote of two-thirds of
the entire senate membership or
64 senators are required to bring
debate to a close on any matter,
including a motion to take up a
bill. Prior to the adoption of the
socalled Wherry rule, cloture
could not be invoked on a motion
to take up a measure.
Mrs. Kinney, 62, Taken by
Death; 38 Years Here
Mrs. Lillie Kinney, 62, 325 So.
21st street, died Tuesday, March
14 after an illness of only a few
days. She was the widow of Fren
chie Kinney, who passed away
only last year, and had been a
Lincoln resident for 38 years.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Butler Ivory, Omaha; two broth
ers, Odie and Omar Harding,
Omaha, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Fri
day, March 17 at Umbergers with
Rev. Trago McWilliams officiat
ing. Burial was in Fairview
cemetery.
Announcing THE VOICE Sensational
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Toole Bill To Give States
$300 Million For Schools
Race Relations
Day Observed;
Pittman Speaks
The Lincoln Council of Church
Women observed their regular
Race Relations day at East Chris
tian church, Tuesday. Main speak
er of the occasion was Mrs. Eliza
beth Davis Pittman, who discussed
“The No. 1 Minority Prob
lem.” Mrs. Pittman, first Negro
woman to practice law in Ne
braska, is now partner of her
father, Atty. Charles F. Davis.
She has been active in church
affairs in the Episcopal diocese of
Nebraska and last year was one
of the representatives from the
diocese to the general convention
of the Episcopal church, jjeld in
San Francisco.
A panel on “Problems of Em
ployment and Housing for Lin
coln Negroes” had as discussants,
Clyde Malone, executive secretary
of the Lincoln Urban League;
Mrs. Walter Bell, president of the
Lincoln branch of the NAACP;
and Ted C. Sorensen, president
of the Lincoln Social Action
Council and editor of the Ne
braska Law Review.
During the noon hour, a mo
tion picture, “Americans All”
was projected by Rev. J. B.
Brooks. Devotions were led by
Mrs. William I. Monroe and Mrs.
Izetta Malone sang.
Ky. Senate
Drops Bias
In Schools
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ANP). Agi
tation to drop the 40-year-old
Day Law, probiting Negro and
white students attending the same
school in the state, made some
progress here last week when the
senate voted 23-3 to amend the
law and allow Negroes to attend
institutions of higher learning.
However, the amendment was
conditional.
The measure specifically states
that Negroes may attend the white
schools if the governing body of
the institution involved approves,
and if “comparable courses” are
not available at Kentucky State
college.
Sponsored by Sen. Leon J.
Shaikun, the measure originally
affected only local schools. How
ever, a committee amendment
broadened the bill to include all
institutions of higher learning in
Kentucky, “both public and pri
vate.”
Its pasage in the senate was
quiet, with no debate or discus
sion. It is now on the way to
the house for action.
Although the Day Law has re
mained intact since its passing in
1910, it was amended in 1938 to
allow Negro physicians and nurses
to take post graduate instruction
in public hospital in Louiseville.
BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Another plank in the admin
istration’s platform fell through last Tuesday when the
House Committee on Education and'Labor voted 13-to-12 to
table the Senate-passed $300,000,000 federal aid-to-educa
tion bill.
The committee has been trying for weeks to crack the
deadlock which had blocked House action on the measure.
The biggest controversy stemmed from clashing differences
over making federal aid available to private and parochial
schools for so-called “fringe
cervices, such as bus transporta
tion, etc
The question of whether the
federal government should sanc
tion segregation by providing aid
to states which advocate separate
schools has also been under dis
cussion. This brought about a di
vision of opinion on whether
school aid should be federally
controlled or controlled by states.
Congressman Powell offered an
amendment to the Thomas bill
last week which allowed the
states to spend federal funds as
they desired, but must guarantee
that each child has the same
amount. That amendment which
aimed to prohibit racial discrim
ination by guaranteeing that all
pupils shared alike, was adopted
by the committee.
The NAACP was not whole
heartedly in accord with the
Thomas bill or the Powell amend
ment. Leslie Perry .an adminis
trative assistant for NAACP, said
that, as much as they wanted
federal aid they had hoped that
when such a bill was enacted it
would abolish segregation.
While the senate-passed bill
might improve the educational
situation dollarwise, it would up
set the very thing that Negroes in
this country have been fighting
for, that is to wipe out the theory
of “separate but equal.”
According to the resolutions
adopted by the national board
of directors of the NAACP last
May, declared Perry, “it is the
policy of the ossociation to ac
tively oppose any education bill
providing federal aid which does
not prohibit segregation or dis
crimination against the Negro
pupils. He pointed out that the
existence of segregation in public
schools has been the excuse for
the policy of segregation in every
area of American life. “It is
therefore a source of regret that
sponsors of the federal aid to
education legislation did not see
fit to grapple with the problem
of segregation which results in
the present inequalities.”
Moss Kendrix, legislative rep
resentative for the National Edu
cation association, lays the blame
at the feet of Chairman John Le~
sinski for blocking the federal aid
to education bill in this session of
congress.
Mr. Lesinski could have given
the children of this country 300
million dollars to improve their
education said the NEA spokes
man, as the committee vote was a
12-to-12 tie which had to be de
cided by the chairman who op
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Toledo Bound
REV. AND MRS. MOQDY.
Rev. Robert L. Moody, 2123 T
st., for more than 13 -years pastor
of the Northside Church of God-;
will resign his position Easter
Sunday to accept his call to the
First Church of God, Toledo, O.,
on April 16. Rev. Mr. Moody was
, elected pastor of the church after
having conducted a week long
! series of meetings for the congre
gation March 5 to 12.
Rev. Mr. Moody attended Miles
Memorial college (C.M.E.) in Bir
mingham, Ala., from 1930 to 1935
and since being in Nebraska, has
done extension work through the
state university and at present at
tends class at Cotner college.
He pastored the Church of God
in Omaha from 1936 to 1937, when
he moved to Lincoln. The congre
gation, not a large one, purchased
five lots and a building under his
administration, which they have
remodeled into a chapel. Though
his local congregation in small,
Rev. Mr. Moody has been active
in his denomination. He has been
doing field work in leadership
training and Christian education
for the Church of God (Anderson,
Ind.) and is assistant national su
perintendent of Sunday Schools
(West Middlesex, Pa), denomina
tional superintendent of Sunday
Schools in Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri and dean of the Inter
state Ministers’ institute.
Locally an active man, Rev. Mr.
Moody was president of the Lin
coln branch of the N.A.A.C.P.
from 1946 till 1949 and has held
several positions in the Lincoln
Social Action council and was
once its treasurer. He is also a
past-secretary of the Firemen’s
and Oilers’ union Local 736 (Have
lock).
Rev. Mr. Moody married the
former Edna Williams in Birming
ham in 1934 and she has been a
most efficient mother and house
hold manager, finding time to be
treasurer and work for the cam
paigns of the N.A.A.G.P. in addi
tion to raising the Moodys’ seven
children. Barbara, a Lincoln high
student, is noted for her music,
Robert, jr., Whittier, for sports.
The Moodys’ new address will
be 619 Collingwood blvd., To
ledo 2, Ohio.
United States President John
Tyler was the father of 14 chil
dren.