VOL. 5. NO 34 Lincoln 3. Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper “ Thursday. June 14 l?r,l
Dr. Bunche Addresses A&T
GREENSBORO, N. C.—(ANP)
—Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Noble
Peace Prize winner, recently ad
dressed more than 6,500 persons
at the 53rd annual commence
ment exercises of A&T college.
I As guest speaker, he denounced
segregation and explained the
roles of the United Nations and
the little people of the world in
seeking a permanent peace. On
the subject of prejudice, he de
clared:
'“Neither bigotry nor condescen
sion nor paternalism are essential
characteristics of southern atti
tudes and thinking. But, the doc
trine of separate but equal is a
monstrous fiction . . .
■ m “Never forget that we in Amer
ica have a historic mission . . .
We are demonstrating for the
world is watching us intently—
that men of all backgrounds can
be solidly welded together in
brotherhood by the powerful force
of two noble ideals—individual
liberty and the equality of man.” j
He explained that ‘‘the voices
of the peoples of the world” if
raised loud enough, must be!
heard, and leaders, even those \
of aggressors, must listen to their
demand for peace.
President F. D. Bluford of A&T
conferred upon Dr. Bunche the
honorary degree of doctor of laws.
I He also conferred bachelor of
| science degrees on 357 students,
trade certificates on 85 and mas
ter of science degrees on 15.
The following graduating ROTC
cadets were commissioned second
lieutenants and sworn into the
army by Lt. Col. Henry Sand
( ridge: James O. Beckett; Elijah
Henry Girven, Roy Kimball, Leon
Henry, and Audrey White.
Capt. Robert L. Campbell was
awarded the Tuskegee Institute j
Alumni merit award for distin
guished service in advancing the
welfare of the human race. M/Sgt.'
T. L. Roberts was presented an
award for proficiency in manual
of arms from the Greensboro Re
serve Officers association.
To Obstetrics
Gynecology Board
DURHAM, N. C. (ANF)— Dr.
Leroy R. Swift, acting director
of the student health service at
North Carolina college, was cer
tified here recently to member
ship in the American Board of
Obstetrics and Gynecology.
He is the first Negro medical
man in the south to be admitted
to the national organization,
which limits membership to
eminent surgeans in this coun
try. There are less than a dozen
Negro surgeans on its rolls to
day.
In addition to winning certifi
cation on the board, Dr. Swift
will be listed in the Directory of
Medical Specialists.
Engaged in private practices,
the doctor is a native of New
York Cit? He received his un- ;
dergraduate and medical training,
at Howard university. Upon
completion on interneship at
City hospital and Homer G. Phil
lips hospital in St. Louis, he re
ceived a R ’enwald Surgical fel
lowship. He later studied at the
University of Michigan under a
Rockefeller Foundation award,
receiving a master of public
health degree in 1942.
He came ,to Durham to or
ganize and direct the student
health service at the college. In
addition, he serves as attending
obstetrician and gynecologist at
Lincoln hospital.
'
Five Negro
Cadets Gef ^ ^
Commi‘
WEST
Negroes,
est numbe
uate from . at one
time, were a 477 members
of the 1951 ck.ss of the United
States Military Academy here
during the 149th commencement
exercises, Tuesday.
Upon graduation, each cadet
was commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the United States
Army or Air Force.
The five are:
Jume* R. Young it.. St. Alban*. Long
Island, N, Y.; Douglas F. Wnlner, Nor
Walk. Conn.; Norman J. Brown, Phila
delphia. Pa.; William B. Woodson.
Washington. D. C., and Rost-oo Robin
son dr. St. Louts, Mo.
George C. Marshall, Secretary
of Defense, delivered the grad
uation address.
Pastor Returns
The Rev. Ralph G. Nathan,
who attended the annual confer- I
ence of the Methodist church
held in Kansas City was re
assigned the past week to New
man church for a second year.
Rev. Mr. Nathan came here
from Boston, Mass. He has a
wife and two children.
The sad part of this kind of a
transaction, is that it is built upon
a false foundation that cannot
reap any real satisfaction.
Even life, to begin with, was
freely given u man, and every
thing else abundantly laid in his
hand; why should not he then be
willing, his poor soul to expand?
Ah, what a wonderful world
this old world would be if our!
sights were raised beyond you and
me, and only Christ we could see
whose blood ;>aid it all, who chose
instead of riches, the wormwood
and the gall.
Etta Moten In Chicago Concert
CAICAGO.—Etta Moten gave a
delightful concert Sunday under
the auspices of the Chicago Urban
league at Crane auditorium on
Chicago’s great west side. The
event which was highly gratify
ing artistically was also a sue-1
cess financially, helping the local
league pad out its current budget.
It was Miss Moten’s first ap
pearance on the west side, an
area of Chicago which now boasts
some 100,000 colored citizens Who
are increasing in numbers rapidly.
No longer can one think only of
the south side when speaking of
Chicago. The west side is like
another and indeed a different
city.
Miss Moten sang the first half
of her concert in formal concert
programming. German and French
numbers included , “Art Thou
Troubled?” “Music Will Calm
Thee” by Handel; “My Mother
Bids Me Bind My Hair,” by
Haydn; “Come Raggio di Sol,”
Caldara; “Muh Voll Komm ich
und Beladen,” and “Er Ists”
(Song to Spring) by Hugo Wolf;
“Ninm Mich and Mein Rosen,”
Erich J. Wolf; and “Divrnite’ du
Styx” by Gluck.
Afro-Hispanic Folk Songs from
Africa, Brazil, Haiti and Spain,
made up a third group and a
ETTA MOTEN
trinity of unusual spirituals an
other.
George Pierson, who accom
panied Miss Moten in flawless
style, presented two piano pre
ludes “B flat” and ‘‘E flat major”
by Rachmaninoff.
This concert closed the regular
season. This summer, however,
Miss Moten will sing on July 1
at Ravinia, the famous North
Shore music center here, the Chi
cago Symphony orchestra fur
nishing the musical background.
William Warfield will appear on
this program which will consist
of Gershwin numbers and the
Eva Jessye choir will sing.
In August Miss Moten will be
one of the soloists at the noted
Chicago Grant Park concerts.
NCU Admits Three After
p.'ipreme Court Action
A \
.icdph Adams
Appointed
To OPS Office
OMAHA, Neb.—The appoint
ment of Ralph W. Adams, 40 as
assistant district counsel for the
District Office of Price Stabiliz
ation in Omaha has been an
nounced by District Director Ed
win Moran. The appointment was
effective June 4.
An Omaha attorney, Mr. Adams
formerly served as rent attorney j
for the OPA. He is a graduate.
of the University of Nebraska
Law School, and a son of Senator
John Adams of the Nebraska
Legislature.
Mr. Adams is married and re
sides at 2814 North T venty-fifth
Street. He is an active member
of the Jrban League and the N.
A.A.C.P.
New York Drops Textbook
With Anti-Negro Play
NEW YORK. (ANP)—The New
York board of education last week
dropped from use a text book
which carried a play said to be
anti-Negro and anti-Semitic.
The book involved was “One
Act Plays,” published by Allyn
, and Bacon and used in high
schools.
Featured was the play, “The
King’s English,” which the Teach
ers Union opposed on the grounds
of its slurs against Jewish and
Negro people.
Then when we awaken to
realize that the gift of God is
eternal life, what terrible in
grates it makes of us all, when we
think first and only of ourselves1
and fall into strife.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.— (ANP)—Three Negro stu
dents were admitted to the law school of the University of
North Carolina, Thursday, it was announced here by Dean
Henry P. Brandis of the law school.
These students were admitted in compliance with the
U. S. Supreme court’s refusal to act on a recent decision
by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeal which ordered the uni
versity to admit four Negro students who filed suit.
DePorres Club
Wins Round In
Coca-Cola Issue
OMAHA.—According to state
ments from the office of the
Omaha Urban League, two Neg
roes have been placed at the
Omaha Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany at 3200 North 30th Street.
Mitchell Reeves of 1816 Lake
Street and Harold Donaldson of
2624 Decatur Street began work
ing June 4th as assembly line
workers at the Coca-Cola Com
pany.
Omaha DePorres Club presi- j
dent Denny Holland of 2872
Binney, St., when asked for a
comment on the hiring made
this statement:
“Club members now see
themselves in a situation much
like that of David and Goliath
in this ‘Don’t Buy Coca-Cola
Campaign’.” Because the giant
| *n this case has only been stun
ned, DePorres members feel that
they must keep sling shot in
hand prepared to live again if
M. L. Gothard, manager of the
company, does not keep in mind
his promise to the Urban League
and to the two Negroes who
have been employed.
The DePorres Club began
negotating with Mr. Gothard
this year in an attempt to get!
the company to end its Jim j
Crow hiring policy. The club
is an independent civic group
whose membership is open to
anyone willing to protest against'
minority discrimination.
Must Sign Oath To
Uphold Segregation
ATLANTA, Ga.—The state
attorney general’s office was1
asked last Wednesday by Repre
sentative Bush Mims to draft a
bill for the Georgia legislature to
require all state employes to sign
oaths to uphold racial segrega
tion.
Mims, who heads a special com
mittee investigating the state
welfare department, is aiming to
track down all state employes
who do not favor racial segrega
tion. Some employes of the wel
fare department testified before
Mims committee that they did not
believe in such segregation and a
number if them had signed a pe
tition for a fair employment
practice commission.
In the course of his investiga
tion, Mims said no persons who
did not believe in segregation
should work for the state.
—
Catholics Drop
All-Negro School
ST. LOUIS.—Another Catholic
Negro institution was ordered
abandoned here this week to
bring about complete racial inte
gration of the church in this area.
Admitted to the summer ses
sion of the law school were Har
vey E. Beech, Durham; J. Ken
neth Lee , Greensboro, and Floyd
B. McKissick, Asheville. All are
students at the jimcrow school of
law at North Caroline college in
Durham. They are the first col
ored students admitted to the
university in its 156-year history.
McKissick and Lee are two of
the four Negroes who originally
filed suit against the university
and the state of North Carolina
when they were denied admis
sion to the law school because of
their color. The other plaintiffs
were Solomon Revis and James
Lassiter.
In the original trial, held Aug.
28-30, 1950, Judge Johnson J.
Hayes, North Wilkesboro, of the
Middle District court, ruled that
the Negro law school was sub
stantially equal to the one at the
! university. He declared that the
state did not deny colored stu
dents equal opportunity as
charged.
The Negroes appealed this ac
, tion to the Circuit Court of Ap
I peals. This higher court reversed
j Judge Hayes’ action, March 27,
1951, and ordered him to grant
relief to the four applicants.
On June 4, the supreme court
refused to take any action on the
case. It notified Maj. L. P. Mc
Lendon of the university’s board
of trustees of its action.
By admitting the colored stu
dents to the low school, the white
school actually acted in principle
in accordance with a recent po
licy change announced ’>y the
trustees. This program called
for the admittance of all quali
fied Negroes to graduate and pro
fessional schools when these
schools are not provided in the
state by the state.
Under this new program one
Negro has been okayed for en
trance into the medical school
this fall.
The appeals court’s action in
the school of law case utilitzed
the Sweatt decision in Texas as
its basis. It pointed out that
buildings alone do not make a
law school, but contact with the
same people he will meet in ac
tual practice is what a law stu
dent needs.
This court declared that the
Negro school was “so inferior as
to violate the constitutional re
quirement.
Pulitzer Winner
Pleads for Race
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A joint
meeting of the Kiwanis Club and
the Memphis Round Table heard
George E. Goodwin, Pulitzer
prize-winning newsman of the
Atlanta Journal, urge the South
to accept the Negro into brother
hood and called for a “real
Southern tradition,” the “tradi
tion of justice.”
St. Joseph high school for Negroes
will not reopen again in Sepfcsas
ber.