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Of L.H.S. Graduation u^ercises
Friday evening, June 2, will mark the end of classroom
days for several hundred Lincoln High school seniors and
the product of the patient, hard work of the instructional
staff will receive their diplomas at the exercises which are
scheduled for Pinewood Bowl, weather permitting. Well,
Good Luck, Class of ’50 and our special congrats to the
following young men and young ladies for sticking with
school when it was easier to get a job requiring no pre
paredness. The class numbers 466 seniors.
Delores Bowen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Bowen. 1600 Whit
tier St
Jean Burns, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W'illiam L. Burns, 2443 So.
9th St.
Charles Campbell, son of Mis.
June Campbell, 536 No. 22nd St.
Loretta McWilliams, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John J. McWilliams,
sr„ 2232 T St.
Birdie Powell, grandaughter of
Mrs. Birdie Artis, 1965 Vine St.
Jeanette Venegar, daughter of
Mrs. G. H. Venegar, Detroit, Mich.
Arnold Walker, son of Mrs. C.
Walker.
Lester White, son of Mrs. A.
White, 231 So. 20th St.
Graduates from Whittier junior
high who will form part of next
year’s frosh class at LHS are:
Ida Adkins.
Clarence Brown.
Donovan Gaddis.
Beverly Holcomb.
Lemuel Jennings.
Betty King.
Theodore King.
Bill Nevels.
John Zollicoffer.
Urban League
Yard Contest
Winner Listed
Last week __ end, the Urban
League’s annual Spring cleanup
and yard beautification campaign
was judged by the committee and
these are the winners they named:
CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
1st Prize—Mrs. Etta Gant, 336
No. 23rd St.
2nd Prize—Mr. and Mrs. Jasper
Wright, 1237 B St.
3rd Prize—Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Artis, 1965 Vine St.
Honorable Mentions: Miss Lo
retta Martin. 728 Rose St.; Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Forbes, 674 So.
20th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Allen, 824 B St.; Mr. and Mrs. Hu
bert Lmtz, 2230 T St., and Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Nevels, 823 No. 17th St.
BEAUTIFICATION WINNERS
1st Prize—Mr. William Burden,
2027 U St.
2nd Prize—Mr. Horace Colley,
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MISS SAM U ELLA VIOLA
TOTTY, director of the division
of business at Southern university
in Baton Rouge, La., is the only
Negro woman to hold a Ph.D. in
business. Upon receiving her doc
torate degree from the School of
Business at theUniverstty of Chi
cago in December, Dr. Totty be
came the first Negro and the
fourth woman to receive this de
gree from the well-known insti
tution. Dr. Totty is a graduate of
Tennessee State college. She did
advanced work at Fisk and Co
lumbia universities. (ANP).
AMEs Confer,
Prepare For
Area Meeting
The district conference of the
A.M.E. church was held at Quinn
Chapel church May 24 under the
direction of Dr. John Adams, sr.,
Omaha, presiding elder. Minis
ters were present from over the
state and from northern Kansas
and discussed proposed changes
in worship, financial and admin
istrative practices in the area.
On May 26, a Quinn Chapel
Laymen’s meeting saw the election
of three delegates to the 5th Dis
trict Laymen’s meeting in Kan
sas City, Kas. The area in
cludes those churches north of
Oklahoma and west of the Missis
sippi. Mrs. Rubie W. Shakes
peare, Ray Botts and Charles M.
Goolsby were elected congrega
tion representatives. Mr. Botts
later declined.
33 Dead, 18 Injured, Block Burns ,
V/hen Speeding Tram Hits Truck
I CHICAGO. (ANP). At least six
Negros met death and 13 were in
jured May 25th in Chicago’s most
tragic traffic accident in many
years which has already cost the
lives of 33 persons and hospital
ized 18, with many still unidenti
Gas exploded, flames raged, and
one block was warded off by
squads of police when a south
bound streamlined State street
trolley flew off the track near
63rd street as it hit an emergency
# switch, while going at full speed,
■ and smashed into an 8,000 gallon
^trailer-truck of gasoline.
jUft Apparently the motormau did
not know the switch had been
turned on. All street cars were be
ing rerouted off State street at
62nd place because the viaduct
south of 63rd street on State was
flooded and no traffic could go
through.
The trailer truck was heading
north as the street car suddenly
swerved east. Charred bodies of
passengers trying to get out tije
door were stacked up in a ware
house. Not all the bodies have
been identified.
The whole east side of the half
block on State between 62nd Place
and 63rd was completely burned
down except for a tavern on the!
corner. Firemen and policemen
worked all night and all day try
ing to put out the fire. The Amer
ican Red Cross, immediately on
the job, set up emergency quar
ters at 6209 State street.
All the dead and injured are
not known as there is yet no rec
ord of how many persons may
have been in the buildings at the
time of the blaze. At least 50
families, mostly Negro, have be
come displaced persons because of
the fire.
Grief burdened relatives and
friends are jamming the tempo
rary morgue . . . praying that they
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Wherry Says Demo Split
Cause of F. B. P. C. Loss
By Stanley Roberts
WASHINGTON. (ANP). “The vote on cloture shows very definitely that the Demo
i cratic party cannot keep its promises. The Democratic party is split wide open. I point
! out that 78VL> per cent of the Republican membership of the Senate voted for cloture,
and only 36!/2 per cent of the Democrats voted for cloture.”
Thus spoke GOP Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry on the Senate floor last Friday
afternoon just after signing a 52 to 32 defeat to limit debate on a motion to take up
the Fair Employment Practices bill. Sixty-four votes would have been required for ap
proval.
Senator Wherry’s revelation was nothing new to many political realists here who
City Council
Still Rejects
| Housing Plan
Public housing was again the
subject of a hot discussion in the
city council chambers Monday,
May 22, as interested citizens from
every walk of life crowded the
room. Yet, after all the tumult
and the shouting died, the status
of publicly sponsored housing for
families in the low and middle
income groups was just where it
was before the hearing began. The
council defeated the proposal, to
build $5 million worth of rental
units, last January by a vote of
5 to 2 with the conclusion that
private enterprise could ade
quately handle the housing prob
lem in Lincoln.
Voting in favor of the proposal
this time were its two previous
supporters, Mayor Clarence G.
Miles and Councilman John Com
stock. Councilman Rees Wilkinson
also supported the move this trip.
The four counrilmen opposing
the measure were Arthur J.
Weaver, Fern Hubbard Orme, Roy
Sheaff (who by so doing has
probably lost himself most of
those Negro votes), and Thomas
Pansing, Urban League Board
member.
Among those appearing in favor
of the measure was Clyde W. Ma
lone, executive secretary of the
Lincoln Urban League, who re
viewed many of the statistics pre
sented in January but stated that
the situation among Negroes has
grown worse. His arguments were
not good enough for his board
member, Tom Pansing, however.
Rev. J. B. Brooks also urged the
council to meet the problem
squarely.
Max Kier, attorney and spokes
man for several realtors’ groups,
averred that private industry can
handle the job.
In the neighborhoods where
Negroes live, there has been no
private building for several years,
not even since January.
To B.U. Faculty
ROLAND HAYES, world famed
concert tenor, w'as appointed re
cently artist instructor in voice
in the School of Music at Boston
university. The singer will hold
classes only four months in the
year, July, August, January and
February, in order that his teach
ing might not interfere with his
concert work. Presently on tour,
the noted singer returned to
Louisville, Ky., the city where he
got his start 40 years ago, last
week to give a recital before an
unsegregated audience. (ANP).
Quinn Chapel Is
Scene of O.E.S.
Observance
Sunday, June 4, the Amaranth
Chapter No. 3, O.E.S., will cele
brate its traditional Esther Day
with a public meeting at Quinn
Chapel A.M E. church, corner 9th
and C Streets, 4ays Frances Lewis,
Worthy Matron of the chapter. An
interesting program has been
prepared under the chairmanship
of Mrs. Evelyn Irving for the oc
casion. The Quinn Chapel senior
choir will render several selec
tions.
Charles Goolsby, Wort^v Pa
tron of the chapter, will aiLlress
the group on “Courage In ' These
Times.” The observance is sched
uled for 3:30 p. m.
Arthur Blackwell Dies
After Long Illness
Word was received of the death
of Arthur Blackwell, 2012 T St.,
who died in Parsons, Kas., Tues
day, May 23rd. Mr. Blackwell had
been ill for more than a year. He
went to Parsons to be with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Blackwell. Among sqrvivors be
sides his parents and his wife, are
two sisters and a brother.
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now realize that if President Tru
man does nothing to convert a
large segment of his own party to
civil rights measures that he ad
vocates, his future promises in
that connection will have about
as much substance as a filibuster.
PARTY SPLIT DEFINITE
Senator Wherry significantly
pointed out that for the first time
in the history of the United States
there was an out-and-out vote on
the issue of applying cloture un
der a petition filed to close de
bate on a motion.
The refusal of the senate to
end the filibuster against the
FEPC bill must be attributed pri
marily to the schism within the
Democratic party.
It was noted this week by ob
servers here that President Tru
man commanded only 19 votes
within his own party while 26
other Democrats voted for a fili
buster on even a motion to take
up the bill.
HAD LARGE GALLERY
The Washington Post, nomi
nally fiiendly to Truman, con
ceded editorially that “It was the
Republicans who rallied to the
support of democratic procedure
in the senate, voting 33 to 6 for
cloture.”
Mr. Wherry’s strong language
was before an enormous senate
gallery audience, predominantly
hopeful that FEPC could be de
bated. It included the following
statement:
“The people of the United
States who are wondering what
is going to be done can see from
this vote who their friends are,
and who can make good on their
promises. Despite the fact that
the republican party has only
forty-two seats in the senate
compared to fifty-four for the
democrats, we produced this
morning fourteen more votes for
cloture than did the democratic
party.
52 SUPPORT CLOTURE
“The vote of fifty-two senators
in support of cloture, was four
votes short of the number re
quired under the old rule, which
provided that there must be a
two-thirds vote of the senators
present in order to adopt cloture.
“Therefore, so far as the fol
lowers and advocates of FEPC
are concerned, it does not make
any difference whether the vote
today had been taken under the
old. rule or under the new rule,
it would have failed to provide
cloture.
“Even under the old rule, the
vote today, failed by four votes
to provide cloture. On the basis
of the showing made on the
democratic side, if we are to
have cloture after a petition has
been filed asking for cloture, the
majority leader had better en
deavor to have the rule amended
so as to provide for a constitu
tional majority rather than a
rule providing for a two-thirds
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