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Plan Committee, Campaign__ „ hite Says Mac Arthur
For Malone Education Fund To Blame For Jim Crow Troops
A permanent committee to ad-:
minster the Clyde Malone Edu
cational fund and a limited cam
paign to increase the fund were
announced Wednesday night as
recommendations of the commit-,
tee appointed in February to'
study the plan.
The educational fund was es
tablished after the death of Clyde
Malone, former executive secre
tary of the Urban league, for the
purpose of aiding the education
of young residents of Lincoln.
Recommendations of the tem
porary committee were that a ^
permanent nine-member commit
tee be appointed by the Urban
league board of directors to ad
minister the fund. Membership
will be for a three-year term,
with three new members to be,
appointed every year.
The restricted fund raising i
campaign for the Clyde Malone!
Education fund will be conducted j
by employes and board members j
of the Urban league, the commit- j
tee report recommended. A goal1
of $4,000 to $5,000 was also rec
ommended.
Money received for the Edu
cational fund will be used for
making loans at low interest rates
for educational purposes to young
persons who are residents of Lin
coln, the report recommended.
The money would be available
•for loan to high school graduates
within two years of their gradua
tion and who are of a high moral
standing in the community.
The educational purpose for
which the loans are made would
not be restricted in requiring that
the recipient attend a college or
university, but would be permit
ted for persons attending busi
ness, trade, nursing and similar
schools, it was recommended.
Members of the permament
committee are:
Three-year term:
Byron Dunn Mrs. Roberta
Mrs. Louts W. Molden
Horne
Two-year term:
Rabbi Samuel George Randol
Halevi Baron Thomas R. Pansing
One-year term:
John F. Lawlor Miss Florence
Roland Young Jenkins
Members of the committee
which made the recommenda
tions:
Thomas R. Pansing, Basillia Bell
chairman. Helene Foe
Clayton Lewis M. F. Arnholt
July 6-17 to be
First Schedule
For Camp Sheldon
Arrangements have been made
for the boys of Lincoln to attend
camp Sheldon while the “Y”
searches for a replacement for
Camp Strader.
The first period—July 6 to 17
—has been designated as the per
iod which most boys of Lincoln
might want to attend and it is
hoped that a good gang of fellows
can represent Lincoln at that
time. Of course, you can register
for other periods as well if it will
fit your plans better.
Registration for Camp Sheldon
may be made at the Lincoln Ur
ban League.
REGISTER EARLY FOR A
GOOD SUMMER OF CAMPING!!
Announcement
Boy Scoot Ceremonial Program
June 11, 1951 7:30 p.m.
Urban League
Public Invited
Club Hits Job
Bias at Omaha
Coca-Cola Plant
OMAHA, Neb. — The DePorres
club, militant civic interracial
group, has struck another blow at
the jim crow that hovers over
Omaha’s employment scene. The
club’s latest attack centers around
the Coca-Cola bottling plant at
30th and Emmett here, which al
legedly refuses to hire Negroes re
gardless of their qualifications, j
Beginning on May 7, a cam
paign was launched by the De- j
Porres club against the local coke
branch. Handbills were dis
tributed declaiming the hiring
policy and urging Negroes to stop
buying the beverage as long as the
discrimination continues. A pe
tition has also been circulated by
members of the group requesting
merchants on the near North side
to refrain from buying coke until
Negroes are given equal job op
portunities by the company. Ac
cording to Denny Holland, presi
dent of the organization, a major
ity of the owners of grocery and
drug stores, bars and cafes have
already signed and put the tem
porary boycott into effect in their
businesses.
Picketing of the plant took
i place for the first time last Sat
urday and will continue intermit
tently until results are achieved.
Pickets carry signs reading “Oma
ha Coca-Cola Company is unfair
to Negroes—DON’T BUY COKE!”
The demonstrations have caused
much curiosity among onlookers,
but no incidents have been re
ported.
The DePorres club started al
most four years ago by a small
group of students at Creighton
university, has become famous in
Omaha for its work for interracial
justice. Continuous jabbing at the
discrimination of downtown res
taurants and a successful boycott
of a laundry for unfair employ
ment policies are perhaps its most
notable achievements, but the
club works also for more and bet
ter job opportunities for Negroes
and enlightened legislation on em
ployment, housing other com
munity needs.
Meetings are held by the or
ganization each Monday evening
at the Omaha Star building. At
present the group has about 40
members. The name was taken
from Martin DePorres, a great
Negro who lived in South Amer
ica in the 16th century, and is
regarded as the patron of inter
racial justice in the Americas.
North Carolina
Elects Councilman
For the first time in the his
tory of Greensboro, N. C. (pop.
73,703), a Negro took office last
week as a member of the city
council. What made it more un
usual was the fact that, though
Greensboro is 23 percent Negro,
Dr. William Milford Hampton, 38,
got so many white votes that he
didn’t even need the la^ge ma
jority he rolled up in the Negro
districts. “Further tribute to the
evolution of interracial relations,”
editorialized the Greensboro
Daily News. After the swearing
in, fellow Councilman John Van
Lindley said: “I held the same
Bible with him, and I was per
fectly happy.”
New Jersey-bom Councilman
Hampton got his medical training
at Meharry Medical college in
Nashville, moved to Greensboro
in 1940. “You live better in the
South,” he said.
| Negro College
Choirs'1 June
Radio Schedule
A.N.P.—Classical choral works,
traditional hymns, folk tunes and
spirituals are heard on “Negro
College Choirs,” presented by the.
American Broadcasting company
in cooperation with the United
Negro College fund. The pro
gram is a regular Sunday morning
feature.
The scheduled choirs for the
month of June are as follows:
June 3—Talladega College choir
of Talledega, Ala., under the di
rection of Frank Harrison.
June 10—Lincoln University
Glee club from Chester County,
Pa., under the direction of Orrin
Clayton Suthem. Dr. Horace M.
Bond, president of Lincoln uni
versity, will be heard in a brief
talk.
June 17—Shaw university choir
of Raleigh, N. C., directed by
Harry Gil-Smythe. Intermission
| speaker will be William R. Strass
ner, acting president of Shaw
university.
June 24—Bennett College choir
of Greensboro, N. C., under the
direction of Carrie Kellogg Ray.
President of Bennett college, Dr.
David D. Jones, will be heard in
a brief talk.
|N. Carolina U.
Would Prevent
Student Influx
GREENSBORO, N. C.—Appli
cations by five Negroes for ad
mittance to University of North
Carolina graduate schools Wed
nesday spurred the university
trustees to take action to prevent
an influx of Negro graduate stu
dents.
The trustees approved the for
mation of a special committee to
map plans for expansion of the,,
North Carolina College for Ne
groes at Durham, N. C. Enlarg
ing the graduate schools at the
all-Nebraska college would make
fewer Negroes eligible for gradu
ate work at U.N.C.
Edward Diggs, a 30-year-old
postal clerk, last month became
the first Negro to be accepted at
the university in the 164-year
history of the school. He was ad
mitted after the trustees voted to
accept qualified students “re
gardless of race or color.”
However, - the trustees’* latest
action indicated that the number
of Negroes to be admitted to the
university’s graduate schools
would be kept to a minimum.
The cost of expanding the
facilities of the Negro’s school at
Durham will be approximately
$100,000 a year.
While the expansion plans are
being formulated, the trustees
will attempt to withhold the pro
cessing of Negro applicants to
U.N.C. in fields of study that
may be inlarged at the Negro
school in Durham.
Joins Husband
—Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star
Mrs. Carrie Parker
Mrs. Carrie Elizabeth Johnson
Parker, 25, wife of Lynnwood
Parker, Urban League Executive
Secretary, joined her husband
June 6th.
Mrs. Parker, an elementary
teacher, has been on a teaching
assignment in her home town,
Greenville, North Carolina.
She received her Bachelor de
grees from Winston Salem Teach
ers College, Winston Salem, North
Carolina.
Having begun work toward the
Masters Degree at the University
of Omaha, last summer, she will
do additional work this summer
at the University of Nebraska.
This is Mrs. Parker’s fifth year
of teaching school.
6 Amos ’N’ Andy’
On Television
... A weekly series being made
on film in Hollywood by CBS
with an all-Negro cast . . Prem
iere is set for Thursday, June 28
(CBS-TV, 8:30-9:00 p.m., EDT)
. . . Producers are Freeman Gos
den and Charles Correll, creators
of “Amos ’n’ Andy”. . . Amos is
played by Alvin Childress, Andy
by Spencer Williams, and the
Kingfish by Tim Moore. . . They
were selected for th-* key roles af
ter an unprecedented four-year
talent search. . . Players of the
secondary roles, Sapphire, Henry
Van Porter, Lawyer Calhoun, the
Kingfish’s mother-in-law were
drafted from the “Amos ’n’ Andy”
radio program. . . The TV series
is a visual continuation of the 25
year-old radio saga, with each
program a complete comedy |
drama. . . It has been taken by j
the Army and Air Force Motion
Picture Service for exhibition
overseas, the first TV film series
to be accepted by the Department
of Defense. . . Director of the
show is Charles Barton, Holly
wood veteran. , . CBS network
program supervisor is James
Fonda. . . Wriaters are Joseph
Connelly, Robert Mosher and
Robert Ross, who script the radio
series. . .
Boy Scouts Cite
Bunche in Chicago
C H IC A G O — Dr. Ralph J.
Bunche—once a Boy Scout in Al- J
buquerque, N. M.—Saturday re
ceived the “Award of the Silver
Buffalo” from the National Coun
cil of Boy Scouts for “dis
tinguished service to boyhood.”
The award was made at a lunch
NEW YOR K—( ANP)—Gen.
Douglas MacArthur’s disavowal of
responsibility for the segregation
of Negro troops under his com
mand in the Far East as reported
in a newspaper last week has
been challenged by Walter White,
executive secretary of the NAACP.
White recalled that although the
general had presidential author
ization to do so in 1945 and again
in 1949, no effective steps were
taken in that direction. Thurgood
Marshall, NAACP special counsel,
who was in the Far East in Jan
uary and February, 1951, reported
that segregation was the prevail
ing pattern in the army, whereas
the navy and air force had moved
| promptly to get rid of this pat
tern.
The text of Mr. White’s state
ment follows:
; “There is nothing in my experi
ences with Gen. MacArthur to
justify or warrant any charge that
he is a ‘white supremacist.’ On
the contrary, he was exceedingly
cordial and frank when I talked
[with him in the Philippines ',n
1945 and in Tokyo in 1949. On
both occasions we discussed the
1 possibility and necessity of aboli
tion of racial segregation in the
armed services. It will be remem
bered that the 93rd Division had
been sent to the Pacific after be
I ing trained as a combat unit.
“But on arrival in the Pacific it
| was split up, scattered widely and
I used as port battalions, trucking
! companies, engineering companies
land other service units. At the
request of the then Secretary of
War Robert P. Patterson, I dis
cussed the re-assembling of the
j division and refresher training in
j combat. Gen. MacArthur prom
ised to do this and kept his
! promise.
"But on the matter of actual
steps toward integration of the
troops under his command I can
not agree with Gen. MacArthur.
In 1946 President Truman issued
his executive order to abolish ra
cial discrimination in the armed
services. This order has been
obeyed by the navy and the air
force. But when I was in Japan
in 1949 I saw little evidence of
any compliance with the integra
tion order. I saw a few instances
of integration in housing of offi
cers and some in a service club
at Yokohama. But the pattern of
segregation otherwise was as rigid
as ever.
"Thurgood Marshall found the
same to be true in Tokyo and
Korea in 1951.
"Thus, Gen. MacArthur cannot
escape responsibility for the con
tinuation of the pattern of segre
gation among the troops under his
command which led among other
unfortunate consequences to the
disproportionate number of courts
martial which have occurred in
the Far East command."
eon during the council's forty
first annual meeting at the Hotel
Stevens.
The citation pointed out that
Dr. Bunche had been associated
with Count Folke Bernadotte,
Chief Scout of the Swedish Boy
Scout Association, who was the
original UN Mediator for Pales
tine, and cited how Dr Bunche
took over following the Count’s
tragic assassination, and finally
brought peace to Palestine. For
that Dr. Bunche also received Mm
1950 Nobel Peace Prize.
