Vol. 4, No. 49 A j.3 1Lincoln, 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, September 28, 1930
Ralph Bui
Nobel Peace
Prize Winner
OSLO, Norway. (/P). Dr. Ralph
Bunche, former U.N. mediator in
Palestine, has been awarded the
Nobel peace prize.
Bunche, an American Negro,
succeeded Count Folke Bernad'otte
as the U.N. mediator in Palestine
after Bernadotte was assassinated
on Sept. 17, 1948. Bunche nego
tiated the armistics between the
new state of Israel and the Arab
states which ended the state of
war there.
Bunche now is principal direc
tor in the department of trustee
ship for the United Nations.
Bunche* thus becomes the elev
enth American—and the first Ne
gro—to win the peace prize, es
tablished by the will of Alfred B.
Nobel, Swedish inventor of dyna
mite. He joins the illustrious
company of:
Theodore Roosevelt Dr. Nickolas Murray
Elihu Root Butler
Woodrow Wrilson Cordell Hull
Charles G. Dawes John R. Mott
Frank B. Kellogg Emily . Balch
Jane Addanis
Twenty-eight persons were nom
inated for the 1950 award, includ
ing Winston Churchill, Prime
Minister Jawaharial Nehru of
India and Gen. George C. Mar
shall. Last year’s Nobel peace
prize—then worth $21,839.30—
went to Lord John Boyd Orr, a
Scotsman who headed the U. N.
food and agriculture organization.
Dr. Bunche, one of the few
American diplomats wrho has won
the praise and fervor Americans
usually reserve for ball players
and movie stars, addressed a
University of Nebraska convoca
tion last May in the coliseum.
Negro Appointed
To Illinois State
Pharmacy Board
CHICAGO. (ANP). A Negro
pharmacist, Dr. Robert E. Giles,
last week was appointed to the
Board of Pharmacy Examiners
for the stat of Illinois. This
appointment is believed to be the
first of its kind for a Negro any
where in the United States.
As a member of this board Dr.
Giles will help control issuing
of licenses to pharmacists through
out the state, and also will be in
charge of examinations. This
body’s third big job is to guard
infractions of pharmacy laws of
the state.
Of this position, Dr. Giles said:
“I feel that this is a great honor.
In the long run this means more
for the Negro race as a whole.”
In particular Dr. Giles felt that
his job would help curtail mal
practices in the filling out of
prescriptions for Negroes. He
said:
“The presence of a Negro on
the board will tend to reduce
breaches of the law by pharma
cists in Negro communities. In
the past a number of them have
looked over the laws when it
came to serving Negroes. This
should be another step in the
improvement of health for the
race.”
A well-established business
man, Dr. Giles has operated his
pharmacy at the corner of 38th
and State streets for 31 years. He
is a graduate of Howard univer
sity with B.S. and doctor of
pharmacy degrees
Married, he has a daughter and
two grandchildren. He is a mem
ber of a family prominent in the
field of health—with the follow
ing close relatives:
Dr. Charles Giles, deceased and
Dr. William D. Giles, a dentist
and past president of the Na
tional Dental association, is his
brother. Another brother, Dr.
Charles Giles is dead. His two
cousins, Dr. Roscoe C. Giles and
Dr. Chauncey Giles, are physi
cians.
The new member of the state
pharmacy board, Sunday, Sept. 10
was guest of honor at the Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity house. Host
groups was the Chicago Ethical
Pharmacists association. |
—Courtesy Lincoln State Journal
DR. RALPH BUNCHE
Leavenworth
To Entertain
Conference
Leavenworth, Kas., will be the
seat of the 30th annual Nebraska
[ conference of the African Meth
odist Episcopal church, which will
convene, Wednesday, Oct. 4, with
the Rt. Rev. D. Ormonde Walker
presiding.
The conference composed of two
districts is presided over by the
Rev. John Adams of Omaha and
the Rev. Elmer Newton of Kan
sas City, Kas. Besides the regu
lar conference business on Fri
day, Oct. 6, the Woman’s Mis
sionary society will hold election
of officers. On Saturday special
emphasis will be placed on Doug
glas hospital and a special meet
ing held for the Laymen.
Attending the conference from
Lincoln and vicinity will be the
Reverends J. B. Brooks, Melvin
L. Shakespeare, Eugene Edwards,
Belva Spicer and John Humbert.
Rev. Mr. Brooks, pastor of
Quinn Chapel, is entitled to great
commendation for the work done
on the church and parsonage.
Both have been completely re
decorated during his administra
tion.
Convocation 19th
Annual Session
Sunday closed the nine-day
session of the 19th Annual State
Convocation of the Church of God
in Christ, held in Omaha, Ne
braska.
The local church here was rep
resented with a large member
ship under the direction of the
pastor, the Rev. C! S. Williams.
The Rev. B. T McDaniel, state
overseer and former pastor of the
church here, presided during the
meeting. State supervisor, A.
McKenzie was in charge of wom
en’s work.
Georgia Defies White House
Freedom Bell
Leaves Coast
Enroute to N.Y.J
LINCOLN , Neb.—The 10-ton
Freedom Bell, dramatic symbol
of the Crusade For Freedom, left
Los Angeles on Sept. 21 aboard
the Southern Pacific rc.ilway, to
begin the second half of a coast
to-coast tour.
The Bell will visit 11 cities en
route to New York arriving
there the first week in October.
It will be shipped to Berlin,
where it will be placed in the
rathaus, or city hall. It will first
peal out its message of freedom
to the oppressed peoples in Iron
Curtain countries or. Oct. 24,
United Nations day.
Public welcoming ceremonies
are scheduled in cities along
the bell’s route and in many
cases the bell’s arrival will coin
cide with the day or week set by
the city for public enrollment
on Freedom Scrolls. The signed
scrolls will accompany the bell to
Berlin and will be enshrined in
the base of the bell tower.
The Freedom Bell was cast on
July 27, 1950, at the Bell Foun
dry of Gillett and Johnson,
Croydon, England, with Am
bassador Lewis O. Douglas in
attendance. Designed by Walter
Dorwin Teague, one of Amer
ica’s leading designers, the Free
dom Bell is larger than London’s
famed Big Ben. It stands nine
feet high, weighs 10 tons and
measures 98 inches in diameter
across the lip. With its mounting,
which includes a specially de
signed electrical mechanism to
swing it, the bell stands 12 feet
high, weighs 20 tons.
On the body of the bell in bas
relief are five figures represent
ing the major races of man, each
figure standing with arms out
stretched. The joining hands hold
torches symbolizing freedom.
Above the figures is a circle of
laurel leaves denoting peace.
Around the bell’s rim is the in
scription.
“That This World,. Under God,
Shall Have a New Birth of
Freedom,” a paraphrase of Lin
coln’s words at Gettysburg.
The Crusade for Freedom,
which was designed to fight
communist propaganda, is under
the state chairmanship of former
Gov. Dwight P. Griswold. Its
main objectives are to enroll mil
lions of Americans on Freedom
Scrolls and to give the signers of
the scrolls the opportunity to make
voluntary contributions to sup
port Radio Free Europe, the non
government “freedom station”
which daily pierces the Iron Cur
tain with news and inspiiational
programs in the languages of
Russia’s satellite countries.
Bake Sale ai Hardy’s
An announcement was made
this week of the second annual
bake sale to be held at the Hardy
Furniture store, Oct. 18. The
project is under the direction of
the Malone Missionary society of
Quinn Chapel A.M.E. church.
The organization met in a spe
cial meeting Friday evening at
the home of Mrs. Roberta Molden
to discuss plans for the years’
program. Next regular meeting
will be held Thursday, Sept. 28,
at the parsonage. Mrs. Margaruite
Williams is president.
Refused To Send Negroes
To White House Conference
ATLANTA. (ANP). The state
of Georgia fell out of step with
the rests of the nation last week
and refused to appoint a single
Negro delegate to the White
House Conference on Children
and Youth, scheduled to be held
in Washington, Dec. 3-7.
Gov. Herman Talmadge, reliv
ing the life of his race-baiting
father, “Ol’ Gene” Talmadge, said
Fall Opening
To Be Held at
Urban League
The Fall Opening of the Urban
League on Friday evening, Oct.
6, 8:15 p. m. wil1 announce its
seasonal program of activities.
The Theme of this years program
will be “Periods of Progress.”
Mrs. Gladys McField, chairman.
Mrs. Marie Bonds, co-chairman.
Hostesses are:
Mrs. Estelle Davis
Mrs. Birdie Artis
Mrs. Fred Bradley
Mrs. Lester Collier
Mrs. Bessie Ambers
Mrs. Roy Brooks
Mrs. Willie Page
Mrs. Gladys Moore
Jimcrow Out
I At Okla. U.
NORMAN, Okla. (ANP). Seg
regation on campus of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma is virtually
a dead issue for the time being.
It has been eliminated because
of a U. S. Supreme court decision
and because of white students,
themselves.
The high court decision came
in the McLaurin case in which
the school’s first Negro student
complained of the jimcrow setup
he was forced to undergo.
To answer this, President
George L. Gross of the univer
sity opened campus housing to
Negroes, and also discarded the
separate sections of the library,
classes, and student cafeteria. He
said:
“We’re treating Negroes just
like all other students in keeping
with the Supreme court ruling.
From now on we’re not gojng to
try to distinguish Negroes from
whites in anyway.
“If you publicize an honor stu
dent or poor student, for example,
just because he’s a Negro that’s
a mark of segregation.”
Actually, his orders were not
needed to stop the jimcrow in the
library and cafeteria. White stu
dents took down screened booths
in the lunch room. They also
timidly began to talk to the col
ored students.
Soon the signs saying “for col
ored only” had little meaning in
the school. The president’s new
orders merely confirmed what
students already had accepted.
Carodine Scores
As an audience of 10,000
watched the Huskers wear down
Ike Hanscom’s frosh team, 60-13,
Saturday afternoon, Tom Caro
dine, Boys Town mayor, scored
the first of two touchdowns, run
ning at full speed over the goal
line.
Bill Glassford would not single
out any of his Huskers for praisa
and remarked that this year’s
frosh “is a fair looking gioup.”
his state was run by whites and
will continue to be run by whites.
The Georgia delegation of 36
has been declared unacceptable
in Washington. All states had
been requested to appoint dele
gates on the basis of population,
giving each group a fair repre
sentation.
Appointed by Talmadge, the
Georgia group has no Negro mem
bers although one-third of its
population is colored. All other
southern states have complied
with the government requests, and
their delegations have been ap
proved.
Denouncing the request, Gov
ernor Talmadge said:
“As long as I am governor of
the state, I shall do my utmost
to uphold the segregation laws of
this state. In keeping with those
laws and traditions, our commit
tee is composed of all white citi
zens.
“We have no Negroes on the
i courts, none in the legislature,
none on the board of regents or
board of education or in the vari
ous other state agencies . . . The
Georgia committee has appointed
outstanding white citizens to rep
resent the state.”
The White House conference
meets every ten years in Wash
ington. Governors name state
planning committees which ap
point delegates to the meeting. A
national committee oversees the
whole operation.
Georgia is the only southern
state that has an all-white com
mittee and all-white delegation.
A Georgia Negro, Dr. Benjamin
E. Mays, president of Morehouse
college, is a member of the na
tional committee.
Governor Talmadge’s action
may force the national body to
select Negroes to represent Geor
gia or take some action to get
a proper delegation from this
state.
Earlier action in this state to
have Negroes appointed failed. In
fact, this action is in accord with
a practice already standard with
Talmadge. He refused to select a
Negro to the Regional Educational
Council of the Southern Gov
ernors conference although all
other states have two whites and
one Negro. He also refused to
appoint a Negro to a large ad
visory council for the state rural
hospital building program.
To Write Sports
Feature For Voice
Carodine who came to Ne
braska U with an enviable rec
ord made during his higl school
career at Boys Town, will write
a weekly feature in THE VOICE
sports. He let
tered four
years in suc
cession in bas
ketball, base
oall and track
and played
three years on
the varsity and
and one year
on the fresh
man team. He
sang with the Boys Town choir
for six years and completed a
commercial course as an honor
student.
Carodine will major in physical
education. He plans to be a
coach. He is married and has a
I son, Tom, jr.