Vol. 4, No, 42 Thurodojr, August 10, 1930
Quinn Chapel
Host to Nebr.
Conf. Branch
About 100 delegates attended
the Twenty-Ninth Annual Con
vention of the Nebraska Confer
ence Branch Woman’s Missionary
Society of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church which closed its
two-day session Thursday, August
3, at Quinn Chapel AME church.
Included in this group were the
two presiding elders, the Rev.
E. A. Newton of the Kansas City
District and the Rev. John Adams
of the Omaha District. Mrs. Mon
roe H. Davis, wife of Bishop
Davis, presiding prelate of the 8th
District was present as a special
guest of her daughter, Mrs. S. H.
Lewis. She addressed the confer
ence during an afternoon session.
Host pastor was the Rev. J. B.
Brooks, and Mrs. Margaret Wil
liams is president of the local
missionary society.
Theme of the conference was
“Send The Light.”
Highlights of the meeting in
cluded a forum and program by
the Young People’s Department;
address by the Conference Branch
President, Mrs. Mary Kidd and a
ser ion on the opening day by the
Re Miss Bcdva Spicer.
Delegates to
the quadrennial
meeting to be
held at Mem
phis, Tenn., in
August, 1951,
were elected as
follows: Mrs.
I o 1 a England,
M r s. Rubie
S h -a k espeare,
Mrs. Eunice
. , , Courtesy Lin Journal I
Juc kson and Mrj_ sh.kMPe.re
Mrs. Florence
Birch. Alternates were: Mrs.
Bernie Childless, Mrs. Ada Smith,
Mrs. Alberta Harriford and Mrs.
Luella Green.
Election ot Conference Branch
of liters will be held Friday, Oc
tober 6, at the seat of the Annual
conference to be held at Leaven
worth, Kansas.
Colorado Reports
Lay Activities
Last September when the
Colorado Annual Conference was
in session in Denver, the Rt. Rev.
_ D. Ormonde Walker, bishop, or
ganized the Colorado Annual
Conference Laymen’s League.
The following officers were
elected: A. L. Mitchell, president;
Mrs. Fanny Gaskin, vice presi
dent; Mrs. M. L. Smith-Morgan,
secretary; Mrs. Irene Brown, as
sistant secret. n Mrs. Hattie
Jefferson, treasurer.
At that time there were five
local leagues in operation. Dur
ing the year four more have been
arganized namely in Salt Ldke
City. Casper. Cheyenne and La
Junta.
At our coming annual confer
ence session in Tucson, Arizona
we hope to have a session of the
leagues to render c ir report and
hear recommendations from our
bishop.
^ From the Albuquerque League,
Mr. Charles Caruthers was elected
delegate, Morris Porter, alter
nate.
The president has prevailed
upon every local league to have
a representative present. So we
ate looking forward to a glorious
aession.
By A. L. Mitchell,
Conference President.
Speaker
Viv r • •' v« --Vii rlih vi In 'n'rTYr
Dr. Alfred Farrell, associate
professor of English at Lincoln
University (Mo.), who delivered
the main address at the organiza
tional meeting ot the laymen in
the Fifth Episcopal District of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church in Kansas City, Kas.,
June 2-4. Dr. Farrell, who is a
graduate of Lincoln University
(Pa.) and holds the M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State
University, spoke on “The Re
sponsibility of A.M.E. Laymen.”
He is president of the Laymen's
League of Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
church in Jefferson City, Mo.
Richard Wrighl
Finishes Film
In Argentina
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad.
(ANP). Richard Wright, noted
American author, passed through
last week on his way from Ar
gentina to New York.
In Argentina, Wright filmed the
movie of his novel, “Native Son.”
He said the shooting work has
been completed, but the musical
score and other technical details
are not yet finished.
The new motion picture will be
premiered in New York, he said,
either in September or October.
The Argentine Sone company
filmed the movie and an Ameri
can firm produced it.
Wright himself, is playing the
leading role with Gloria Madison
his co-star.
The noted author plans to re
turn to Paris, France, after his
movie’s opening. He related he
was writing another novel deal
ing with Negro people and colored
minorities in America.
Mo. Valley Tennis
Meel Is Aug. 10-13
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ANP) —
The 14th annual Missouri Valley
Open tennis tournament opened
hei'e Aug. 10 and will close Aug.
13 at the Paradeway courts. The
meet is sponsored by the Missouri
Valley Tennis association.
The following defending cham
pions aie fighting to retain their
titles:
Kelly Wilson, St. Louis, junior
singles; Miss Marieta Fine, Kansas
City, Kas., No. 2 ranked nationally
by the American Tennis associa
tion, women’s singles; Capt.
Charles R. Penrose, men’s singles,
and Earl Ross and Charles Gates,
men’s doubles
Players from all member states
—Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma,
Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska, Minne
sota, North Dakota, and South Da
kota—have entered the tourney.
Host organizations for this
ATA-sanctioned meet are the
Kansas City tennis club, Wyan
dotte tennis club, Junior tennis
club, and the Bal-Rack (women’s)
tennis club. j
Second Complaint Filed
Against Capitol Beach Bias
Refusal to sell a Lincoln man
admission to the swimming pool at
Capitol Beach Julj 31, resulted in
the filing of • second complaint in
the last 60 days against the man
agement of the recreation facility.
A party of five tfhiversity students
and an instructor went to the pool
on that day to swim. All went well
until Charles Goolsby, 210 North
13th, was refused purchase of ad
mission because he was a Negro—
a situation, the salesgirl told
Goolsby, that existed because the
NMA Leaders
Praise AMA
Resolutions
By Alice A. Dunnigan
WASHINGTON. (ANP) — Two
leaders of the National Medical
association last week highly
praised the American Medical as
sociation for its resolution on the
racial question in the practice of
medicine during its recent con
vention in San Francisco.
Dr. C. Herbert Marshall, na
tional president of the NMA,
praised the action as a great step
toward the elimination of racial
bias in the field ot health.
The resolution, actually passed
a month ago by the AMA House
of Delegates, read:
“Resolved, that these facts be
brought to the attention of all
component and- constituent socie
ties appreciating that membership
is a component and constituent so
ciety responsibility, and be it
further
“Resolved, that constituent and
component societies having re
strictive membership provisions
based on race study this question
in the light of prevailing condi
tions with a view to taking such
steps as they may elect to elimi
nate such restrictive provisions.
Introduced by a delegate from
Virginia this resolution is expected
to be a great factor in the future
integration of Negro physicians
I into the AMA.
Doby Slams Tli ree
Homers To Take
Natl League Lead
CLEVELAND. (ANP). Larry
Doby pounded out three consecu
tive home runs Wednesday night,
drove in five runs, and took over
the American league batting lead
as he led the Cleveland Indians
to an 11 to 0 victory over the
Washington Senators.
This batting spree raised Doby’s
average to .350 which left him
Friday morning one point ahead
of last year’s batting king, George
Kell of the Detroit Tigers.
The homers were Doby’s 12th,
13th, and 14th round trippers of
the season.
| Sgt. Mosby
With Army
In Korea
Sgt. William (Billy) Mosby, son
of Mrs Vashti Mosby, 1030 Rose
Street, is on duty with the U. S.
Army—United Nations forces in
Korea, according to word received
here last week.
Mosby, who was in Lincoln on
furlough in May, was assigned to
the 630 Ordnance Ammunition
company at Ikego, Japan, at the
time.
Before military service, Sgt.
Mosby was very active in younger
circles and at Quinn Chapel
church, where he was an original
member of the William Woods
Usher board.
State Department Voids Paul
Robeson’s Permit to Leave U.S.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The state department an
nounced here last .week the voiding of the passport held by
Paul Robeson, noted baritone concert artist, after the singer
failed to surrender it voluntarily upon request.
Though the state department and immigration officials
would not make extended comment, it was learned the
revocation stemmed from the singer’s activities in left-wing
movements and his outspoken criticism of the United States
in its international dealings.
According to one official, Robe
son had been asked earlier to
surrender physical possession of
the passport. Up to last week, he
had not done so. The state de
partment then noted on its
records that the passport is now
“null and void.” This m%ans
Robeson will not be oble to ob
tain a visa to leave the country
by any of the points where im
migration or other federal of
ficials concerned with travel are
stationed. »■
Local and national immigra
tion and customs services and
the FBI have been alerted to
stop the singer if he tries to
leave the country
ROBESON CHAIRMAN OF CAA
Robeson will not be able to ob
Council on African Affairs, and
a member of the permanent com- i
rnittee of the World Committee,
Permanent Peace. According to
state officials on his return from
a trip to Russia, he spent con
siderable time and made a num
ber of speeches in which he
praised the soviets and dis
paiaged what was being done by
the United States.
He was one of the speakers
scheduled to address the peace
rally sponsored by the New York
Labor conference for peace in
New York last Wednesday. The
rally failed to be held, however,
because pro-communist demon
strators provoked a riot in Union
square and a 1,000-man police
force was called out to restore
order. Another speaker for the
rally was to have been Dr. W. E.
B Du^o's. vr"i*»n of the
peace ihforiutuion center. j
Capitol Beach management in
sisted that it be so. A conference
with Ralph Beechner, Capitol
Beach manager, told the group
that he could “sympathize” with
the refused man, but after all, he
didn’t make the policies. That is
done by Robert Ferguson, owner
at Capitol Beach, he said.
Following the conference, the
complaint charging violation of
the state’s civil rights statute were
filed in the County Attorney’s
office by Willard Gaeddert,
Charles Goolsby and David Keene.
The first complaint against the
pool management was made in
June when a group of university
girls sought to take Tommy Davis,
7, swimming in the pool while on
a picnic at the recreation park.
Young Davis was refused admis
sion and the rest of the party
had their money refunded. Fol
lowing the incident, Mrs. Estelle
Davis, Tommy’s mother, Mr.
Gaeddert and Ruth Shinn had a
GO minute interview with Beech
ner without a satisfactory result.
Afterward the group tried unsuc
cessfully to get an interview with
Ferguson ant. consequently iiled
their complaint. A letter from Mr.
Wagner’s office informed the Cap
itol Beach management of its vio
lation, nevertheless, the party was
refused admission Monday. Ne
Ibraska state 1 ws require that all
citizens have equal access to the
accommodations of all places of
amusement, restaurants etc.
No. Koi •eans Co
Blackface To
Confuse Troops
WITH THE 24TH INFANTRY
IN KOREA. (ANP). A new infil
tration wrinkle was uncovered
here last week by troops of the
famed 24th Infantry regiment
fighting on the Korean front,
when a supposedly Negro GI
turned out to be a North Korean
soldier done up in blaek face.
According to one officer of the
regiment, he could see what
looked like a Negro GI driving
before him at gun point a column
of white-clothed civilians—sup
posedly guerillas.
At closer range, however, the
24th opened fire upon the group,
including the Negro soldier, be
cause:
“We found out that the Koreans
had blackened the face of one of
their own men and dressed him up
, just like our GI’s. Guns were
given the men in white. Then the
communists just pretended to
drive them down the road close to
our positions so as to fool us."
B. O. Davis Cels
Rank of Col.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Col.
Benjamin O. Davis, jr., received
the permanent rank of full colo
nel from the Department of the
army there last week.
Three other Negro officers were
stepped up a grade. Maj. George
E. Webb, former commanding of
ficer of the 322nd Airbase group,
Lockburne field, now assigned to
the Far East air forces, was ele
vated to the lieutenant colonelcy;
Lieut. Rolin A. Bynum, public in
formation officer in the defense
defense department, and Ulysses
E. Toatley, maintenance officer,
Far East air forces, were made
captains.