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Mr. and Mi , utfi id
At Quinn Chi r __.......u. vauircli
In a colorful ceremony at Quinn Chapel Methodist
Church Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harris were
crowned Mr. and Mrs. Quinn Chapel. The selection was made
by the winning teams of a financial campaign under the
direction of Clayton P. Lewis, chairman of the steward
Town Drops
Ban, Leases
Apartments
NEW YORK. (ANP)—Negroes
will be accepted in the Stuyve
sant Town housing project, it
wras revealed this week by a
spokesman for the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company, owners
of the project.
This statement finally broke a
7-year ban in which the company
consistently refused to rent to a
Negro. Stuyvesant was built
with the aid of public funds, al
though it is not a public project, i
The firm said it had leased
“some apartments to qualified
Negro families.” Still left un
settled, however, is the reported
eviction of 35 familu : that
worked with the Tenants Com- I
mittee to End Discrimination in
Stuyvesant Town.
In a special statement, a com
pany spokesman said of the
opening of the project to Negroes: ;
‘‘In response to inquiries, a
spokesman for the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company con
firmed the fact that the Stuyve
sant Town corporation (a wholly ;
owned subsidiary) has leased
some apartments to qualified
Negro families.
‘‘No change in basic policy is
involved. In court proceedings
which have continued over a
period of several years the com
pany has successfully established
its right to select tenants of its
own choice. In doing so the
management will continue to ex
ercise its best judgment.”
This statement may mean that
' the company is admitting Negroes
on a trial basis now and could
revert to its former policy, prac
ticed successfully since the 8,759
apartment project was built.
In the city council Councilmen
Earl Brown and Stanley W. Isaacs
hinted that they may renew their
efforts to pass their anti-bias
housing bill. They originally with
drew their proposal when Mayor
O’Dwyer hinted that something
W'ould be done to stop the Stuy
vesant ban.
Paints Portrait
Of Ark. Governor
HOT SPRINGS. (ANP). Theo
dore Mitchell, 20-year-old bud
ding artist, achieved some meas
ure of fame locally when he dis
played a portrait in. oil of Gov
ernor McMath here last week.
The unusualness about the por
trait was that Mitchell used a
campaign poster likeness of the
governor as a model, and finished
the work in two days.
The youth’s artistic career be
gan when he was but a tot. He
started by making drawings of
comic strip characters. To date,
he has sold pictures for as high
as $130, because “I can’t eat
pictures and a little money can
look awfully good at times.”
In order to get enough money
tor art supplies, Mitchell works
at odd jobs such as sign paint
ing at the shop of J, C. Boone.
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department ot the church.
Attendants for Mrs. Harris were
Mrs. Willie McGinnis, Miss Vir
ginia Davis, Mrs. Marie Bonds
and Mrs. Hazel Sharron. Attend
ant for Mr. Harris was Mr.
Lewis. Lighting the candles were
Misses Norma Dunn, Birdie and
Doris Powell and Bettie Rose
Huston. The senior choir from Mt.
Zion Baptist church furnished the
music with special selections by
Mrs. J. T. Wright. Charles
Goolsby led the victory demon
stration and the victory song was
led by the youth choir of Quinn
Chapel under the direction of Mrs.
Dorothy Lewis.
The Rev. J. B. Brooks, pastor
of the church who was master of
ceremony crowned the couple
who are veterans, having spent
many, many years in active serv
ice in the church. Mrs. Odessa
Johnson was in charge of the pro
gram.
The rally was given for the
purpose of buying furniture for
the parsonage and liquidating out
standing indebtedness of the
church. The two of ten captains
having the largest amount of
money were Mrs. J. H. Dean and
Mrs. Rae Lee Harris. They were
honored with a party by the los
ing teams.
Negro Named Assistant
Grid Coaeh at Toledo U.
TOLEDO, O.—Dick Huston, a
31-year-old Negro, has been
named assistant freshman foot
ball coach at Toledo university,
a school attended mainly by white
students.
Huston was graduated from the
college two years ago after being
picked on the third string All
Ohio and All-Ohio conference
teams in 1946-47.
Officers of National Dental Association
Shown in conference at the recent annual convention in Chicago, are, left to right: Dr. Waldo Howard,
Houston, Tex., chairman of the board and past president; Dr. A. M. Mackel, Natchez, Miss., secretary
of the executive board; Dr. C. E. Williams, Chicago, chairman of the executive board; Dr. Marcus B.
Hutto, Bainbridge, Ga., chief, public relations; Dr. M. L. Walton, Thomasville. Ga., president; and Dr.
William E. Springer, Cincinnati, O., president-elect. (ANP). i
Senator Praises Bravery
Of Negro Troops in Korea
Henry PopeTo
Urban League
Field Post
NEW YORK. (ANP). Henry W.
Pope has been appointed field
secretary of the National Urban
League’s Industrial Relations de
partment, according to Lester B.
Granger, executive director.
As field secretary, Mr. Pope
will serve primarily as staff sec
retary of the League’s Commerce
and Industry Council under the
leadership of its chairman, Win
throp Rockefeller. This is an ad
visory council of top management
representative of a score of well
known commercial and industrial
enterprises.
Dedicated to the improvement
of the economic well-being of the
nation’s Negro population, the
council serves to strengthen and
expand the league’s industrial re
lations and \ ocational guidance
program.
Mr. Pope will share responsi
bility for the development of In
dustrial Relations department ac
tivities in contacting, negotiating,
and conferring with government,
industry and labor.
Mrs. Betbune Starts
Tour in September
DAYTON BEACH, Fla. (ANP).
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune,
president-emeritus of Bethune
Cookman college and past presi
dent of the National Association
of Colored women, will begin a
series of speaking engagements
in the north and east around the
middle of September, it was an
nounced here last week.
Mrs. Bethune recently returned
to her home here to take part in
the summer session commence
ment at Bethune-Cookman, the
institution she founded 46 years
ago. She is currently president
of the Association for the Study
of Negro Life and History.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). The bravery which Negro
troops are now exhibiting in Korea was brought to the at
tention of the Senate last Wednesday by Sen. Herbert H.
Lehman (D.-L., N. Y.) who expressed hope that the record
which Negroes are now making would serve to speed up the
army’s program of abolishing segregated units.
Am. Red Cross
Ask for Blood
WASHINGTON. (ANP). An ap
peal for whole blood for our com
bat forces on the Korean fight
ing fronts went out last week as
the American Red Cross an
nounced it has been requested by
the armed forces to step up col
lections immediately to meet rap
idly growing needs.
Gen. George C. Marshall, Red
Cross president, said today: “I am
confident that our American peo
ple who donated blood so gen
erously during World war II will
again respond wholeheartedly to
this request.”
Until this week needed supplies
of whole blood came from volun
teer military and civilian donors
stationed in Japan. Larger amounts
of whole blood and plasma are
now required not only for Korea
but for the expanding armed
forces in the United States.
Stitli Couple to
Reside in Canada
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stith, 2411
So. 8th st., will leave about Sept. 1
for Canada where they will be
employed as attendants of a rec
reation resort. Mr. Stith has been
attending the University of Ne
braska as a veteran of World
war II and has been employed
with the agriculture college poul
try unit. The Stiths moved here
two years ago from Fairbury, Neb.
They have a daughter, Maxine, in
nurse training at Provident hos
pital, Chicago.
The New York senator inserted
I in the record an article appearing
in the New York Herald Tribune
on Aug. 20 under the headline
“Army Unit Ends Segregation,
Finds It Works.”
The article tells ol' the complete
integration of Negro troops in the
Fourth infantry division now in
training at Fort Ord, Calif., and
quotes a white officer who served
with Negro troops in Italy during
World war II, as saying, “The
quicker the entire army adopts the
policy of non-segregation, the bet
ter.”
Senator Lehman said he was
eager to call attention to the ar
ticle at this particular time, when
“Negro troops are distinguishing
themselves on the battlefield in
segregated units, because non
segregation is now official army
policy.”
Pointing out that Negro Amer
icans are fighting under the flag
of the UN for freedom and democ
racy, Mr. Lehman added that “if
those troops are accorded true
equality of treatment, which
means non-segregation, they will
fight with a greater will and a
greater determination for victory
in Korea and in the battle against
communism throughout the
world.”
The New York senator was high
in his praise for the 24th all-Negro
regiment of the 25th division
which has been in the thick of the
fighting from the outset and has
suffered many casualties.
This unit has distinguished itself
in spite of the fact that it has
been fighting under unfavorable
conditions and more often than
not against overwhelming num
bers of aggressive forces.
“The record of the 24th regi
ment in Korea is electrifying evi
dence that these Negro Americans
are worthy of the highest acclaim
as soldiers of the United States
and fighters for freedom,” de
clared Senator Lehman.
King Most Unusual
Holy Year Pilgrim
VATICAN CITY. (ANP). One
of the most unusual visitors to see
Pope Pius XII during the 1950
Holy Year pilgrimage was an
African king who arrived by plane
with a leopard skin tossed over
his shoulders.
The king, Idigo of Nigeria, flew
to the Vatican City with 40 of his
subjects. When he alighted at
Ciampino airfield, he had the
leopard skin draped across his
shoulders. Later he changed to
less striking clothing.
Among other Africans was
Bishop Joseph Kiwanuka of Maska
Masaka, who arrived with a group
including chiefs from Northern
Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Uganda,
Kenya and the Sudan.
Committee to Meet
A committee is being called to
meet tonight at Quinn Chapel
A.M.E. parsonage to plan Youth
day, to be held Sept. 17. Mrs.
Golden Brooks is chairman of the
committee. Jeanne Malone, Dor
othy Greene and Charles Gootoby
we members of the committee.