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Vol. 4, No. 27 A A 3 ! 90-S ’ Nebraska Official and I^egal Newspaper Thursday, April 27, 1930
THE DEEP RIVER SINGERS—Walter Bell, Albert Yarbrough,
Joseph Giles, and James Collins, stars of stage, concert and screen.
Urban League Sponsors The
Deep River Singers On May 3
The Deep River Singers, na
tionally known quartet, will be
presented in a concert at the Lin
coln Urban League by the league
on Wednesday evening, May 3, at
8 p. m.
The Deep River Singers were
organized in 1929 under the di
rection of Mr. John Burdette,
with the hope of creating inter
racial goodwill through the me
dium of music. The following
year the group, thoroughly trained,
entered the Chicago Tribune Mu
sicland festival and won the
award for the best quartet. From
there they went to the Chicago
World’s Fair where they appeared
through 1933 and 1934. They have
appeared on all the major radio
networks and many other stations,
and have been featured in such
musical productions as “Porgy
and Bess,” “The Hot Mikado,” and
others.
In the last 20 years they have
made 40 national tours with
jaunts to Canada, Cuba and
APA Marks 23rd
Year at N.U.
On May 7tli
May 7 Beta Beta chapter of
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will
celebrate its 23rd birthday on the
Nebraska campus. Feature of the
observation will be a public pro
gram that day featuring some of
the best local talent and Dr. A.
Wayman Ward of Chicago as
speaker on the occasion.
Dr. Ward, a minister in the
AME church, is director of the
Church Federation of Greater
Chicago and a leader in civic
affairs. He is very much in touch
with many of the problems of
Negroes in urban life and will
deal with some of the relation
ships between the organization
and the community.
Chapel Dean At
Fisk Heads College
Chaplains’ Ass’n
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ANP).
The Rev. Wm. J. Faulkner, dean
of the chapel at Fisk university,
was elected president of the Na
tional Association of College and
University chaplains at the asso
ciation’s recent meeting at Pitts
burgh. He succeeds the Rev.
Bradford Abernathy, chaplain of
Rutgers university, New Bruns
wick, N. J.
The National Association has
one hundred member colleges,
white and Negro, in all parts of
the country. Dr. Faulkner is
the association’s first Negro presi
dent.
OUR HONOR ROLL
The following are some of those who
are New Subscribers or have renewed
their subscription to THE VOICE.
Mrs. Paul Beebe
Mrs. R. B. Ray
* Harold Jones, Allentown, Pa.
Mr. Dale Weeks
Mr. H. W. Peterson
Mrs. George B. Wilder
Mrs. Edw. C. Fisher *
Rev. Philip Sehug
Mrs. Evelyn Knowles
Mrs. Mary Watkins
How does your subscription
stand?
Mexico singing a wide variety
of selections—classics, folksongs,
popular selections, and the ever
loved spirituals.
Current members are Walter
Bell, tenor. Born and educated in
St. Louis and attended Lincoln
(Mo.) university. He was a mem
ber of the Legend singers before
joining the group and has five
years of army service. Albert Yar
brough, tenor, is a native of
Georgia but went to Evanston, 111.,
schools. He has three years of navy
service and has sung with several
groups—Mundy, Eureka, and Cot
ton Picker singers. Joseph Giles,
baritone, hails from New Orleans
and Chicago and is a former mem
ber of the Mundy singers. James
Collins, bass, is a St. Louisan and
former member of the Celestial
choristers.
Accompanist, James McClendon,
formerly of Pine Bluff, Ark., ma
jored in music at the University
of Kansas and at St. Louis School
of Music and Allied Arts.
FEPC Action Postponed
For Truman's AEC Bill
Bundle Series
Popular at PC;
To NP May 8
CHICAGO. (ANP). Between
2,000 and 3,000 Chicago college
professors, students and Chicago
citizens filled Rockefeller Me
morial chapel on the University
of Chicago campus last week to
hear Dr. Ralph Bunche lecture
from Monday through Friday on
“Man, Democracy and Peace.”
As acting assistant secretary
general of the Department of
Trusteeship of the U.N., Dr.
Bunche lectured on the U.N.’s
primary objective peace. His dis
cussions ran as follows: “The
Palestine Intervention: From
Mandate to War”; “The Palestine
Intervention: Mediation and Con
ciliation”; “The Twilight of Co
lonilism”; “Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms”, and
“The Challenge of Human Rela
tions.”
The well-known mediator ex
plained the U.N. charter in rela
tion to each topic discussed.
In the first two lectures he
outlined the U.N. PATTERN of
peace-making. In latter three he
presented the U.N.’s foundations
for peace. He brought heavy ap
plause and laughs from the audi
ence through the telling of hum
orous little anecdotes in explaning
the workings of the U.N. program.
According to an announcement
by the University of Nebraska
last week, Dr. Bunche will ad
dress a convocation at the uni
versity coliseum on May 8.—Ed.
Hazel Scot! Given $250
Damages in Cafe Suit
SPOKANE, Wash. (ANP). Swing
pianist Hazel Scott won $250 in
damages in U. S. District court
here last week from the propri
etors of a Pasco (Wash.) restau
rant who denied her service on
racial grounds on Feb. 11, 1949.
Miss Scott, with her husband,
Rep. Adams Clayton Powell, jr.,
(d., N. Y.) had sued Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Utz, former owners of the
Utz restaurant for $50,000.
Her complaint was that she and
a companion, Mrs. Eunice Wolf,
had been denied service at the
Utz restaurant solely because they
were Negroes. A 1909 state law
forbids operators of certain pub
lic places to refuse service to per
sons because of color or race.
An all-white jury deliberated
15 hours before returning the
verdict in Miss Scott’s favor.
The Lincoln Urban League Institution
Over at 2030 “T” Street there stands a building, the home of the Lincoln Urban
League, admirably suited to the services it renders. Bat, what is the Urban League? Is
it a community center, an organization, or what?
The Lincoln Urban league is an independent social agency of inter-racial character.
Like the 84 other similar organizations throughout the country, it is affiliated with the
National Urban League, which performs the functions of a centralized information depot
and tough problem solver for its affiliates. The National Urban League was organized
in 1910. The local organization was formed in 1932.
HOW IT BEGAN.
The pioneers of the organiza
tion included a number of public
spirited citizens, among them Rev.
T. T. McWilliams and Millard
Woods, its first executive secre
tary. In the beginning its activities
were financed by the Civil Works
Administration (CWA), but in
1933 the organization became a
participating agency of the Lin
coln Community Chest. However,
up to 1942, the Lincoln Urban
[League received financial support
for its staff with the exception of
the executive secretary, from
WPA funds.
The league’s first home was a
6 loom house on S street, but by
1935 it was able to move to a 2
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WASHINGTON. (ANP). The Fair Employment Prac
tice Legislation was faced with another postponement last
week when Senate Administration leaders, with the presi
dent’s concurrence, decided to bring the Marshall Plan ex
tension before the senate ahead of the FEPC bill.
After holding conferences with President Truman and
with the Democratic Policy committee last Tuesday, the
Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois an
nounced that the president thought it was more important
to take up ECA than any other pending legislation.
Solon Balks
On Hastie’s
Appointment
WASHINGTON. (ANP) The
confirmation of Judge William H.
Hastie’s appointment to the po
sition of federal circuit judge hit
a snag in the senate judiciary
committee last week, when the
chairman, Pat McCarran. an
nouced that the committee would
not take action on this nomina
tion until the judge had appeared
before it in an executive session.
The delay in the confirmation
of Judge Hastie’s appointment
together with that of Judge
George T. Washington, was made
public after an executive meet
ing in which the committee ap
proved two other nominations to
federal courts in Washington.
All of the judges are sewing
under recess appointments made
by President Truman last fall.
Senator McCarran would not |
discuss the reasons for the delay
in committee action on these two
judges, but sources indicate that
Judge Washington’s nomination
was held up over a question
raised about an interpretation of
the Taft Hartley law attributed
to him while he was in the jus
tice department. The same source
revealed that Judge Hastie’s ap
pointment was delayed for
further inquiry into his connec
tions with certain organizations.
An opposition to Judge Hastie’s
appointment arose in the com
mittee hearing last week through
a letter addressed to the chair
man and signed by Bern Dib
ney of New York. The opposition
was based on an address which
Judge Hastie delivered at an
NAACP conference held in Los
Angeles last July. It also op
posed his appointment on the
ground that he had been active
in the National Lawyers guild,
described as a “communist-front”
organization.
The National Lawyers guild
and the American Bar associa
tion heartily indorsed Judge
Hastie as being “highly quali
fied” for the office and a man of
“sterling character” and “great
integrity.”
The Illinois senator assured
newsmen that neither he nor the
president had lost any enthusiasm
for bringing up FEPC and it is
going to be called up ana “a de
termined effort will be made to
pass it.”
Having been on the senate cal
ender since Oct. 17, the FEPC
bill was scheduled as the No. 2
order of business in the second
session of the 81st congress, fol
lowing the oleo tax bill.
Instead of sticking to the origi
nal schedule, the senate decided
to take up the Hatch act amend
ment after the oleo bill was
passed. This was followed by the
Women’s Equal Rights amend
ment, then the Kerr natural gas
bill, next the middle income
housing measure and the flood
control bill and now the ECA.
Lucas is said to have put the
decision on this postponement, up
to the president after several or
ganizations held a conference at
the capital last week and pressed
for action on the FEPC.
Elmer Henderson, director of
the American Council on Human
rights, and a member of an infor
mal civil rights committee which
conferred with the senate leader
last week, addressed a wire to
President Truman urging him to
press for action on this bill. The
ACHR spokesman declared that
another postponement will “seri
ously impair chances of breaking
a filibuster and passing an FEPC
bill this congress.”
wnerry tiles LMxie Vote.
Some of the republicans charged
that the latest delay involves a
political decision. Sen. Kenenth S.
Wherry claims that the democrats
hoped to put off the civil rights
test until after the May 2 south
ern primaries. He told reporters
that “They’re more anxious to
beat the Dixiecrats than to pass
FEPC.”
Senator Lucas denied that pri
maries had anything to do with
this postponement. Timing the
civil rights test isn’t nearly so im
portant as making a “hard hitting
fight when we get it to the floor,”
declared Lucas. He said ha hoped
to get the bill up in the senate
before May 2.
The senate leader predicted that
a larger portion of Mr. Truman’s
program will be enacted in this
session than most people think.
He said the president is “pretty
well satisfied” with what has
been accomplished and what is in
prospect.