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I_ Official and I^al Newspaper Thursday, December 21, 1950 Dr. Bundle Honored in Oslo OSLO, Norway. (ANP). Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize, met two kings during the past week in Eu- ! rope. Dr. Bunche came to Norway to : receive the Nobel award, the world’s greatest prize for achieve- i ment. He has met King Haakon of Norway, and in Copenhagen, Denmark, King Frederik IX of that nation.* While overseas' Dr. Bunche, who won his prize for his work j as United Nations mediator in the Palestine situation during 1949, also delivered lectures at various European universities including the University of Oslo and Copen hagen university. In Oslo, King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav and other members of the royal family looked on as Gunnar Jahn, chairman of the Nobel committee, presented him' a gold medal, a diploma, and a check for $31,674. This check Is tax-free in the United States and in Norway. .Dr. Bunche was one of eight persons receiving Nobel awards worth nearly $200,000. He received his award before an overflowing au ditorium at the University of Oslo, and the other winners received their awards at ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden. In his acceptance address, Dr. Bunche praised the men who helped him during his trying days of the Palestine mediation. He had special praise for Count Folke Bernadotte, his predecessor at the mediation post. He told his audience he was “overwhelmed” with this honor. He said in part: “May there be in our time a world of peace in which we, the people, make full use of the pos sibilities which are in us, a world of freedom and equality among all men. . . “I am appreciative beyond the puny power of man. There are men who stand beyond who are also honored today.” Of Count Bernadotte, he said: “May we long revere iiis mem ory.” He closed his talk by saying, “May there be in our time, at long last' full peace.” >, feAt the University of Olso, the Nobel winner delivered the tradi tional Nobel lecture. Speaking at Festival hall, the university’s largest auditorium, Dr. Bunche averred that the United Nations offered the world a key to peace. He denounced the propaganda and cold war between the East and the West. He declared: “The words used by statesmen in our day no longer have a com mon meaning. Words, in a con stant flow of propaganda—itself an instrument of war^—are em „ ployed to confuse, mislead and de base the common man.” Of the UN he said: “If today we speak of peace we also apeak of the United Nations. In this era, peace and the UN have become inseparable. If the UN cannot insure peace, there will be none. “If war should come, it will be only because the UN has failed. Bu t the UN need not fail. Surely ey^y .man of reason must work • flPpipy to that end it will not fail.” In an interview in Copenhagen, Denmark, he told reporters that the bahning of the atomic bomb in j Itself is not . a stepping stone j toward peace. . . • | When Dr. Bunche, who is now director of the UN trusteeship di- j vision, received his Nobel Peace Mrs. L. Thomas TakenByDeath lyirs. Lennie “Dilly” Thomas, 58, died suddenly Friday in San Diego, California, where she had lived since leaving Lincoln about 12 years ago. She was born in Lin coln and lived here until her mar riage to Dempsey Thomas. She then moved to Minneapolis and later to Omaha. She is survived by her husband, Dempsey, mother, Mrs. Allie Har din of the home in San Diego, one sister, Mrs. Alva Brison, Long Beach, California; three brothers, Hugh Mason, Omaha, Claude Ma son, New Jersey, and Joseph Ma son, Wyoming. Mrs. Trago Mc Williams, Sr., Lincoln, is an aunt. Mrs. Jessie Freeman, Omaha, also an aunt, left Saturday for San Diego and was in attendance at the funeral which was held on Monday. Mrs. Hardin will return to Nebraska and make her home in Omaha with her sister, Mrs. Freeman. Julian Pays $40 Per Day Protection CHICAGO.—It is costing Dr. Percy Julian, noted research chemist, $40 a day to protect a new home in the community of Oak Park which has been threatened by bigoted arsonists and vandals. This represents the cost of private guards which the Julians have been forced to hire. Prize, guests included the Parlia mentary Committee of Norway, prominent Norwegian leaders, noted Americans, and American Negroes. . . Dr. Bunche is the 42nd person to win this coveted award, origi nated by Dr. Alfred Nobel, inven tor of dynamite. The first awards were made Dec. 10- 1901. . . Upon receiving his award, Dr. Bunche received one of the greatest ova tions ever given any person any where. The audience stood up and cheered him for several minutes before the UN leader could speak and be heard. Minister Starts Work at Church STAFFORD, Conn. — Except for a printed program, the white congregation of the Staf fordville Congregational church, today greeted its new minister, the Rev. Roland T. Heacock, a Negro, without any fuss. But, the fifty-six-year-old World War II chaplain, noting a flock of strange faces, said in his sermon: “It is a sad commentary on the state of democracy and Chris tianity that when an obscure, un talented Negro minister takes over the pastorate of a tiny rural Con necticut church, that it is big news. Why should it be big news? “Why shouldn’t we, human be ings, just accept one another re gardless of the color of our skin or our eyes, if we are decent and worthy? “And why, may I ask, is not the Christian religion in the forefront practicing this simple, elemental precept we so loudly proclaim— the work and dignity of human personality? “The plain truth is, and I take this opportunity of saying so, so that reporters may report it, the plain truth is that the Christian church should hang its head in shame at its snobbery, racism and class consciousness ...” The slim, slender, gray-haired minister’s inaugural sermon in his new post here met with approval from the 100 or so in his congre gation, including the oldest mem ber, Mrs. Ida Walbridge, eighty two-year-old mother of the church’s deacon, Hiram Wal bridge. Mr. Heacock, who for seventeen years was pastor of a large Ne gro parish in Springfield, Mass., and has served as itnerim min ister recently at the nearby Staf ford Springs Congregational church, preached on “The Vision and the Answer.” Last Tuesday, in accepting the call to the church, Mr. Heacock, recovering from an eye disability which had threatened to send him into retirement, expressed joy over “the great honor conferred upon me.” g A g-'. Jg* TEA T 0L|UAy greetings j a Happy the heart that looks to 3 home with friends and loved ones 8 gay...to light the tree and sing the 8 songs for a wonderful Christmas Dayl | 8 a 1 t g We thank God for Christmas, we thank God I? lor Him who Came into the world as the greatest pt Chiistmas gift that the world has ever known. 8 May this Christmas be a most happy occasion g lor all human beings, is our prayer and wish, t* It is in this thought that we find the joy * of Christmas, for this gift of love heightens, fl deepens and lengthens all of our relationships ® It is a message that love shall never lose its « own. It is the joy that comes in the thought that yi we may always possess the child-like heart. It g is the exaltation of knowing that God cared «. enough for a war-torn, weary, defeated old R world so that in the darkest night there shone g a star, and Wise Men following it found their 5 h°f>0* fulfilled in the beauty of a family scene. r Shepheids on a hillside heard* a heavenly 6 chorus ol "Peace on earth, good will toward 5 men", and hastening to Bethlehem found Him F in turn, becomes the Shepherd and the 8 Saviour of all life. It does not seem strange 3 to surround the birth of Christ with an angel » chorus, a heavenly light, and wandering jj| strangers from afar, for, in Christ, the heart M of God is revealed and it is the heart of love. * Here is a message of joy that never grows old. $ So accept this gift of love and know the joy M that comes from .belonging to the family of a those of the Christmas fellowship. Christmas is the joy of friendship. One of « the finest things in regard to this celebration m is that we do take time to send a card of greet- m ings to our friends and w'e enjoy receiving the & friendship cards. This is as it should be for 3 Christmas is the eternal symbol and x’eality of « the friendship of God let lose in the world jj through the radiant personality of Jesus. * Be joyous this day in the light of this gift 4 beyond price and make room in your heart for « the friendship of Christ. m —The Voice Staff. K i-MXSBk £SX 3£S* XS* fisat 5,000 Delegates Attend White House Conference The fifth White House Conference called to consider the well being of the nation’s children was held in Washing ton, D. C., December 3-7. More than 5,000 delegates from every state in the na tion took pail in the working conference held in the Na tional Guard Armory in the nation’s capitol. Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown Dies in Korea TOKYO. — Heroic effoi ts to rescue Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, a colored aviator, behind enemy lines in Korea, was revealed by the Navy Saturday. The downed pilot, Ensign Brown, could not be rescued and died before he could be extri cated from his plane. His next of kin, Mrs. Daisy Pearl Brown, his wife, T-116 Robertson Place, Hattiesburg, Miss., has been noti fied. Brown was the first colored of ficer in the Navy in any way to lose his life. He was the first colored naval aviator in the his tory of the Navy. Another colored aviator has just been graduated from the Naval Training Station at Pensacola, Florida. Ensign Brown was a former enlisted man in the Navy. He was a graduate of Eureka high school in Hattiesburg. After enlisting in the Navy he was sent to Ohio State university under the V-5 program, a college training pro gram for qualified high school graduates to become line officers of the Navy. At the end of World war II, after he had completed two years at Ohio State, he went into the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps and completed his educa tion at Ohio State. He selected aviation after graduation and was sent to the Pensacola Naval Air Station for training. After addi tional training at Jacksonville Air Station, he received his wings in 1949. Five hundred 01 the delegates were young people who partici pated in the conference for the first time. Over 250 interna tional observers from 41 foreign countries were also present. The purpose of the conference was to consider “how we can de velop in children the mental, emo tional and spiritual qualities es sential to individual happiness and to responsible citizenship and what physical, economic and so cial conditions are deemed neces sary to this development.” After two years of intensive na tion-wide preparation represent ing the work of 100,000 lay citi zens and 15,000 specialists and consultants, the findings on the status of children and youth in the nation were laid before the conference. The conference was divided into 30 information panels to hear the reports and into 35 work shops to consider the problems in more de tailed and intensive study. From 75 to 150 delegates as signed to each work shop on the basis of interest and professional experience, studied particular problems, made findings and rec ommendations to five broad sec tions of the conference which then were presented to the entire dele gation in a plenary session at the end of the conference. Ninety recommendations voted upon by the conference delegates included the abolition of racial segregation in education, federal aid for public schools, minimum job standards, extension of old age and survivor’s insurance ben efits, more public housing, in creased non-commercial TV edu cational programs, and the elim ination of all types of racial and religious segregation. The strongest appeal of the con ference was to the government to abolish segregation in the District of Columbia. Many Negro delegates were re fused hotel accommodations des pite the protests and activity of a Washington voluntary housing and hospitality committee to se cure equal accommodations for all delegates. The youth delegates had gone on record in a preliminary meeting in August as opposed to discrimination and were housed in barracks at Fort Meyer, Va., with out discrimination. As one of their last acts, the conference voted to give the Na tional Committee power to estab lish a follow-up program. The Missouri Conference will also set up a structure to follow-up and implement the national objectives. A Kansas City White House Con ference, as a follow-up is to be held early in 1951. Among unconfirmed reports was the rumor that a dark com plexioned U.ft. delegate from In dia was turned away from the Hay-Adams Hotel when he was mistaken for a Negro. President Harry S. Truman, spoke at a general session of the conference and said the three most important things in starting young people on the road to use ful and honorable citizenship were the home in which children are loved and understood, good teach ers in the first grades of school and religious training when chil dren are young.