Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, July 19, 1951
Mrs. Sampson to Visit
Europe on Goodwill Tour
BY AJLICE O. DINMGAN
WASHINGTON. ( ANP) .—Mrs.
Edith Sampson, alternate delegate
to the United Nations, will return
to Europe on another goodwill
tour for the government as soon as
the necessary arrangements can
be made, according to Mrs. India
Edwards, vice chairman and di
rector of the women’s division of
the Democratic National Commit-!
tee.
Mrs. Edwards told the press last)
Tuesday that Mrs. Sampson, along:
with Miss Margaret Truman, the
presidents’ daughter, and the two
United States women diplomats
have done a terrific job toward
counter attacking communism in
Europe and winning friends for
the United States.
Much of the racial propaganda
which was being circulated in the
European countries was combatted
by Mrs. Sampson, who is a mar
velous speaker and who did a
wonderful job in Austria, stated
Mrs. Edwards.
Mrs. Sampson went to Europe
for a ten-day stay, but she was in
such demand that she remained
there six weeks.
“When I ran into Mrs. Sampson
in Vienna she was perfectly ex
hausted,” said Mrs. Edwards. “She
had been making three and four
speeches a day, and she was a
tremendous hit!”
Women in foreign lands are
very anxious to talk to American
Women, observed the political
leader. They asked that more
American women come over there.
'T* Mrs. Sampson did not confine
her speeches to women’s organiza
tions, she also spoke to men’s
groups, to schools and universities
and to lawyer’s groups.
She spoke chiefly on the “Status
of the American Negro,’” because
the people were anxious to learn'
about the Negro in this country.'
But she also talked on the work of
the U.N., and of the work of the
Sub-committee on which shej
served. That committee deals with
the treatment of prisoners of war.
Mrs. Sampson, being a lawyer |
herself probably talked on more
technical subjects when she spoke
to lawyer’s groups.
Mrs. Edward’s two months tour
carried her to Austria, Germany,
Denmark, Belgium, Luxemburg
and France. Upon her return she
made a report of her findings to
President Truman last Tuesday.
Ol ive Appointed
To West Point
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ANP).
Lewis C. Olive, jr., 22, former
local athlete, was enrolled last
week in the United States Mili
tary Academy at West Point. He
is believed to be the first Negro
from Kentucky to attend the
Academy. He was appointed by
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (d.,
N. Y.).
A 1948 graduate of Central
High school here; Olive attended
the University of California,
Berkley. While at this university,
he broke the freshman track rec
cord for the mile.
Last year Olive attended the
Military Academy preparatory
school at Newburg, N. Y. At the
prep school, he won the national
junior Amateur Athletic Union
1,000-yard race.
Olive’s father has been active
in Democratic politics for many
years. He was Negro democratic
campaign chairman in 1948. j
—Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star
MRS. EDITH SAMPSON
Ada Fisher Fails
Bar Examination
By VIOLA D. Lewis
TULSA, Okla. (ANP) — Mrs.
Ada Lois Sipeul Fisher the Negro
who shackled the color bar at the
University of Oklahoma Law
school, failed to pass the state bar
examination, Fred Mock, chair
man of the board of examiners,
announced. Mrs. Fisher will be
graduated in August.
Many will recall Mrs. Fisher as
the young lady who made head
lines in 1947 when she tried to
enroll at the state university’s law
school. At this time it was un
heard of for a Negro to attempt to
enter a white university in the
South;
Her application was refused,
and the state set up an equal but
separate school for her. She car
ried her case to the U.S. Supreme
Court, which declared the separ
ate school to be inadequate. She
then was admitted to the School
of Law at the University of Okla
homa. She will be graduated in
August.
As to why she did not pass the
state bar examination, Mrs. Fisher:
said it was just a case of bad luck.j
“After three years, I’ve done
too much hard work to get dis
couraged now,” she added.
She said that she will probably
take the examination again in
January.
Attorney Leaves
For ^Europe
WASHINGTON — (ANP) — Dr.
George A. Parker, dean of the
now defunct Terrell law school,
and one of the attorneys in the
W. E. B. DuBois case, left Wash
ington last Saturday for Europe
where he will hear testimony
from Miss Joan Laffitte, execu
tive secretary of the Congress for
World Peace.
He was accompanied on the
trip by Miss Gloria Agrin and
Bernard Jaffe, two other attor
neys representing DuBois. In
Paris they will be joined by two
of the prosecuting attorneys from
the Department of Justice where
Miss Laffitte will testify whether
or not the Peace Information Cen
ter of New York, of which Dr.
DuBois was chairman, was affili
ated with the international or
ganization.
Dr. DuBois is one of five people
under indictment for the failure of
registering his organization as a
foreign agent, on the grounds that
it is connected with the world
peace movement.
Parker expects to be in Europe
Law Declared In Chi. Suburb;
National Guard Patrols Town
Two Crr -k
►MPSON
■j v--^P) — Two
'V* acked the color line in
.spective fields here last
Edward Irons became the first
colored doctor to serve his in
ternship in a local white hospital,
and Mrs. Lilia Byars Thompson,
interior decorator, landed a cov
eted contract with white organi
zation.
Dr. Irons completed his intern
ship in hospital administration at
Hillcrest hospital. He received his
master of science degree from the
University of Minnesota. He has
been appointed as business man
ager of the Consolidated State In
stitution at Taft, Okla.
Mrs. Thompson has the contract
to cut, sew, and design draperies
for the new building of the Na
tional Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Her contract is with the
Honn-Nording firm.
Mrs. Thompson is the wife of
P. S. Thompson, a local pharma
cist.
Richmond Nurse
Wins Fellowship
RICHMOND, Va. (ANP)—A fel
lowship for public health study at
the University of Michigan has
been won by Miss Eugertha B.
Robinson, a nurse with the In
structive Visiting Nurse associa
tion here.
The fellowship was provided by
|the National and the Richmond
Tuberculosis association working
several weeks before returning to
America. The DuBois trial is
scheduled for hearing in the Dis
trict of Columbia, Oct. 3.
I_._I
These are precautions recommended by the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis when polio is around. Also, wash
hands before eating and be on the alert for such symptoms as
feverishness, sore throat, headache, upset stomach or sore muscles.
They may—or may not—mean potto. If the disease does strike, ■
call your doctor promptly, follow his advice. Your local National j
Foundation chapter will provide needed assistance. i
CICERO, ILL. (ANP). Martial law was declared Friday
in the town of Cicero, 111., a suburb of Chicago, as the Il
linois National Guard restored a semblance of peace to a
town reaked with violence for nearly a week because a
Negro family is moving in.
As a result of the National Guard action, 70 persons
have been arrested with 14 to be turned over to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. They are charged with unlawful
assembly, incitement to kill, and destruction of public
property. The 14 turned over to the FBI will be investigated
for possible violation of federal statutes.
Bishop D. O. Walker
Rt. Rev. D. Ormonde Walker,
presiding prelate of the Fifth
Episcopal district of the African
iMethodist Episcopal church is
scheduled to be in Lincoln, Sun
day night, July 22. Services will
be held at Quinn Chapel A.M.E
church, 9th and C streets at 7:30
p.m. The Rev. J. B. Brooks Is
pastor. It will be the bishop’s
first official visit in the city.
co-operatively. Miss Robinson, a
graduate of Armstrong High and
the St. Philip School of Nursing
also holds a cerificate in public
health nursing from the school of
public health at the Medical Col
lege of Virginia.
Other results of the flareup
which attracted a mob at its
height contained 6,000 persons
were as follows:
The Negro family of Harvey E. -
Clark, jr., 29, has not moved into
its apartment, and will not until
peace is restored.
A total of 19 persons including
three soldiers and four policemen
were injured and treated. Numer
ous others were injured also, but
not reported.
No civilians, unless properly
identified as to name and mission,
j are allowed within a radius of 400
yards of the apartment building
involved.
Mob action, slowly building up
since Monday when the Clark!
moved their furniture into theix
new home at 6139 W. 19th st. in
Cicero, seethed into animal bru
tality by Thursday night.
‘ Led by teen-age hoodlums not
only from Cicero, but from Chi
cago and other suburbs, the
tensed crowd surged toward the
building with a barrage of bricks
, and lighted flares in an attempt
to burn the biulding down or tear
it up.
[ Various sections of the crowd
[swept past the inadequate police
patrols on guard, entered the
building, smashed into various
apartments and heaved furniture
out the windows as their frenzied
admirers screamed in delight.
Sheriff Babb personally pleaded
to the crowd one night to disperse,
but he was hooted and jeered.
His men and Cicero town police
! were unable to handle the thous
ands of white supremacists out
Thursday night, and they pleaded
with Gov. Adlai Stevenson to send
out the National Guard. He did.
At 12:30 a.m., Friday, the Na
tional Guard was ordered into
action. Each rifleman was armed
with a Garand rifle and two
rounds of ammunition. Each
machine gunner was equipped
with 250 rounds. Soldiers, garbed
in full battle regalia, were told
not to shoot unless ordered to do
so.
They did not have to fire, but
they were forced to use their
bayonets and tear gas to force the
crowd into retreat. They also
utilized their trucks and jeeps to
push the rioters back.
Some 12 hours after they ar
rived the mob was dispersed, but
not before three guardsmen had
been hurt by missiles tossed by
the crowd. Police officers and
firemen also aided the militia.
By the time they restored some
thing that appeared to be order,
the furniture of the Clarks had
been destroyed, and so had furn
iture in many other apartments in
the building.
A total of five companies, com
manded by Col. Clifford Hodgin,
including 500 men quelled the
crowd. These men, many of them
veterans of World War II, came
from various suburbs of Chicago
because guardsmen from Chicago
are now on field training at camp.