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MRS. KATHRYN FAVORS, Omaha school teacher, who will speak
for the young: women’s program at Quinn Chapel church Sunday
evening:. Mrs. Favors has established an enviable record as an
instructor in the Omaha school system.
Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Favors To
Be Featured Sunday At Quinn
When the women of Quinn Chapel AME church ob
serve their annual women’s day, Sunday, July 9, they will
feature two outstanding Omahans as speakers on their pro
grams, according to an announcement made recently by
Mrs. Jennie Edwards, general chairman of the day.
Mrs. W. W. Farmer, well known Omaha evangelist,
will be the guest speaker at the 11 a. m. service. She is a
speaker of unusual ability and
portends to bring some interest
ing observations on the occasion.
Mrs. Dorothy Lewis will be mis
tress of ceremonies at the morning
service.
At 3 p. m. a program is planned
which will feature local members
of the community who are active
in business and professions. At
the program, Mrs. J. B. Brooks,
wife of the pastor, will be hostess
to all mothers of young children
who attend. Mrs. Verta Finley
will be mistress of ceremonies at
3 p. m.
At the time of the regular eve
ning services, the young ladies of
the church will hAve charge. The
committee, consisting of Misses
Barbara Kelley and Jeanne Ma
lone, and Mrs. Ralee Harris and
Mrs. Eugenia Brown, have selected
Mrs. Kathryn Favors, Omaha
school teacher, for their speaker.
Mrs. Favors is well-known in Lin
coln, her husband having pastored
Mount Zion Baptist church here
for some years. Mrs. Favors, who
received her M.A. degree from the
University of Nebraska, is at pres
ent writing a history of the Amer
ican Negro for children.
Following the morning service,
the ladies of the church are serv
ing dinner in the church basement
for those who do not wish to make
the trip to more distant parts of
the city
Jackie, Camp,
Lead In Poll
CHICAGO. (ANP). Second
Baseman Jackie Robinson and
Catcher Roy Campanella of the
Brooklyn Dodgers continued to
hold their leads in the poll for
the 17th annual All-Star game to
be played July 11 at Comiskey
park.
Larry Doby fell to fourth place
in the American league voting
for outfielders, and Luke Easter,*
Doby^s teammate with the Cleve
land Indians, fell do fourth in the
ballot for first baseman.
Back in the National league
Henry Thompson of the New York
Giants rose to third among hot
corner men, and Sam Jethroe of
the Boston Braves moved up to
eighth among outfielders.
Robinson, who took the league
leaders in baUing with an aver
age of .361, has a total of 192-704
votes, to rank third among all
players in total vote. Campanella,
who lost his lead for a day, has
168,347 votes for a slight margin
over Walker Cooper of the Braves, j
Jones' Loyalty
To J. F. Wilson
Told Elks
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Loy
alty of Herbert E. Jones to J. Fin
ley Wilson, grand exalted ruler
of the Elks, was verified this
week in a public statement by
Anton S. Lloyd, chief district
deputy of the national organiza
tion.
Lloyd made this statement as
an answer to certain rumors
crediting Jones with heading a
movement against Wilson since
w his illness. Jones as head of the
public appearance committee is a
member of the national cabinet.
He is known as the “tall syca
more.”
Commenting on Jones, loyalty,
Llovd said:
“No one is more zealous in the
performance of his trust as a
member of the grand’s cabinet
than the ‘Tall Sycamore’.”
Integrated Armed Forces
Show Might In Far East
Lena Horne
Reveals She
Wed in 1947
By Lem Graves, Jr,
PARIS.—Relaxing among period
furniture of an expensive five
room suite in the Raphael hotel,
right off Paris’ famed Arch de
Triomphe, Lena Horne recalled
some, but not all, of the details
of her marriage to Hollywood
conductor Lennie Hayton two
and one-half years ago right here
in Paris.
Vague and non-committal on
some aspects of the wedding.
Miss Horne resisted all efforts
to pin down the exact date and
place of the nuptials. She ad
mitted that she was married in
December, 1947, but refused to
fill in the date. She said that
her marriage followed the usual
pattern which, in Paris, means a
civil ceremony followed imme
diately by a short church ritual.
Miss Horne hinted that the
civil ceremony took place in the
same Raphael hotel, but declined
to confirm this fact. At any rate,
she admitted that her return to
the same hotel in beautiful and
romantic Paris largely inspired
her belated public acknowledg
ment of the marriage which most
newspapermen had known about
for some time.
Asked why she had denied the
marriage for so long, Miss Horne
was equally vague and uncon
vincing. At first, she said, she
felt that for a woman in her
profession it would be more
glamorous to be regarded by the
general public as unattached.
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 3)
AME Mission
Supervisors
Close Sessions
Friday closed two of three area
meetings of the African Methodist
Missionary society comprised of
the Kansas Conference. The third
meeting was held a week ago in
Kansas City, Kansas, with Mrs.
Florence E. Burch supervisor of
the Kansas Area.
Mrs. Frances Cloud was in
charge of the Omaha area meeting
held at Bethel A.M.E. church in
Omaha and Mrs. Jennie R. Ed
wards was a representative from
Quinn Chapel.
Mrs. Rubie W. Shakespeare,
supervisor of the Atchison Area
held her third and last meeting in
Troy, Kansas, with Mrs. Ola Still
man and committee entertaining
a capacity audience. Mrs. Helen
K. Newton, supervisor of Young
People and wife of Presiding
Elder E. A. Newton, of the Kansas
City District was guest speaker.
The Rev. Stephen Davis of Hor
ton, Kansas, preached the ser
mon and a mixed quartette of
young people from Horton, under
the direction of Mrs. Katherine
Woodson highlighted the services
for the day. Mrs. Bertha Harold,
Mrs. Emma Young and Mrs. Wm.
Gaskin were in charge of devo
tions for the day. The Rev. W. W.
Betton of Leavenworth and the
Rev. S. J. Holly of Atchison, as
sisted with the morning worship.
The Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Broaden
,of St Joseph, Mo., were hosts.
By BRADFORD LAWS.
TOKYO.—One of the mightiest exhibitions of integra
tion of Negro troops and unification of Army, Navy and
Air Force organizations was staged here in the Far East
with the day-long observance of the first world-wide United
States Armed Forces Day program.
Mixed units: soldiers, sailors and
airmen participated throughout
the Orient, showing the Far East
an example of President Truman’s
“equality of opportunity and
treatment in the armed forces”
program as well as the military
strength of the United States.
Several thousand United States
nationals and military personnel
of all races visited the display of
equipment and witnessed a two
hour “live” demonstration of var
ied service activities on the huge
Kaneda Air Base on the outskirts
of Tokyo.
IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY
The Haneda show was the cen
ter attraction of several observ
ances in the Tokyo-Yokohama
area, with major military organi
zations pooling their efforts for an
impressive “Teamed for Defense”
demonstration.
In addition to the observance,
General Headquarters, Far East
Command, held varied festivities
throughout Tokyo, while Eighth
Army and Yokohama motor com- j
mands staged exhibitions during
the day in Yokohama, in addition
to participation at Kaneda.
The appearance of the famed
Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment,
veteran of many years overseas
service, in full battle dress, was
among the top highlights of the
parades staged . throughout the
Japanese islands.
All-Negro units from the Yoko
hama Motor Command were im
pressive as they passed in review
along the main streets of the Jap
anese seaport city.
JET PILOT IN SHOW
The observances extended from
Tokyo-Yokohama to other U. S.
military installations throughout
Japan, while organizations across
the expanse of the Pacific, at
Guam, Okinawa, in the Philip
pines and in remote places held
ceremonies and demonstrations
suitable to this occasion of na
tional importance.
In the Philippines, at Sangley
Point near Manila, the mixed units
of the Navy played host to the
Army and units of the Thirteenth
Air Force, each joining demon
strations, maneuvers and displays
of equipment, to which the Amer
ican colony that includes many
Negro ex-GI’s and their families
were invited.
The Thirteenth Air Force’s jet
instructor pilot, First Lieut. Dan
(Chappie) James, Miami, Fla., a
former member of the celebrated
all-Negro 332nd Fighter Wing,
rated as one of the top Negro pi
lots in the services, headed a for
mation of fighter planes in the air
exhibition.
MIXED 20TH SCORES
At Okinawa, the Twentieth Air
Force was host to the Army at
Kadena Air Base in staging a re
view that saw the veteran all
Negro Ninety-third Engineers and
the 822nd Engineer Aviation Bat
talion showing their wares.
True to form, the famed Twen
tieth Air Force, with all of its
units containing mixed personnel,
took the spotlight as Capt. Eld
ridge Willi ms ’f- ns’s City. Kan.;
First Lieuts. Samuel W. Watts,
Miss Huston
Works For
Church Groups
Miss Bettie Rose Huston, daugh
ter of Mrs. Kathryn Huston, 2420
Holdrege, has been employed since
June 10 as a secretary for the Ne
braska State Council of Churches,
of which Rev. L. Carol Lemon is
executive. Beginning July 3, how
ever, she will assume similar
duties with the Christian Rural
Overseas Program office which is
also located in the YMCA build
ing.
Miss Huston is a senior student
at Lincoln high school where she
is majoring in arts and sciences.
There she has been on the stu
dent Assembly committee, in the
community she has also been ac
tive, participating in several Ur
ban League activities, and is
Princess Matron of Rising Sun
youth fraternity. She is also a
member of Quinn Chapel AME
church.
She hopes some day to become
a social service worker.
Jackie Robinson
May Lecture For
State Department
NEW YORK. (ANP). Jackie
Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers
will not barnstorm this fall after
the baseball season, it is being
whispered these days. It is be
ing reported that Jackie will go
overseas instead as a representa
tive of the state department as an
example of American democracy.
He is to be sent abroad by the
government to lecture and discuss
baseball with Europeans.
These rumors apparently are
substantiated by the state depart
ment magazine distributed in oc
cupied European areas. This jour
nal reprinted in its entirety the
full text and pictures from a Ne
gro magazine of Jackie preparing
to go to training camp. _
New York; Ulysses Toatley, Wash
ington, D. C., and William A.
Lewis, Springfield, Mass., passed
the reviewing stand among some
10,000 troops.
Lieuts. Sydney Johnson, Spring
field, Ohio and Eugene A. Briggs,
Trenton, N. J., were among the
flyers participating in an aerial
review of display of equipment.
DAVIS AIDE ACTIVE
Most of the American island
personnel at Guam attended the
giant picnic which was held at
Tumen Bay. Units of the Nine
teenth Bomb Wing, with the
Nineteenth Air Base Group, head
ed by its executive officer, Maj.
Gen. George A. Webb, Washing
ton, D. C., former executive offi
cer for Col. Benjamin O. Davis,
Jr.’s 332nd.
The nattily dressed mixed
Marine and Navy units were
among the most picturesque sights
in the Guam program.
—(Pittsburgh CourTier
News Service)