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Capacity Audience Hears
Bishop D. Ormonde Walker
Bishop D. Ormonde Walker,
presiding bishop of the Fifth Dis
trict made his first official visit
to Quinn Chapel Sunday at 7:30
p.m. He preached a short, stir
ring sermon to a near capacity
audience, using the Apostle Peter
as his theme.
Bishop Walker was presented
by The Rev. John Adams, pre
sidingf elder of the Omaha dis
trict who came with him to Lin
coln in company with the Rev.
S. H. Lewis.
The Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare
and the Rev. R. E. Edwards were
in charge of services in the ab
sence of the Rev. J. B. Brooks,
pastor. Clayton P. Lewis, chair
man of the Steward board gave
welcome remarks. The choir fur
nished the music and Winifred
Winston gave a beautiful rendi
tion of the Lord’s Prayer.
Bishop Walker left immediately
by train after having made three,
official appearances in Omaha,
earlier in the day.
Educators Named J
By Urban League
To Judge Contest
NEW YORK.—Judges for the
1951 Thalheimer Award Essay
Contest were announced recently
by Ann Taneyhill, director of Vo
cational Guidance for the National
Urban League. Appointed to the
committee were: Dr. Ira DeA.
Reid, professor of sociology, Hav
erford College, Haverford, Pa.;
Dr. William D. Wilkins, editor of
Occupations; The Vocational Guid
ance Journal; and Helen R. Smith,
of New York City, director of the
Vocational Advisory Service. Dr.
Reid, member of the board of
trustees of the League is also an
Urban League Fellow. He served
for many years as director of Re
search for NUL. Dr. Wilkins is a
member of the faculty of the
School of Education, New York
University. Miss Smith for years
has been a trustee of the National
Vocational Guidance Association.
$150 Award
Every year the League sponsors
the Thalheimer essay contest to
stimulate high school and college
youth to concentrate on their fu
tures and to “plan and prepare”
for vocations. Winners of the 1951
contest will be announced at the
National Urban League’s Annual
Conference in St. Paul’s, Minne
sota, Sept. 3 to 7. Prizes for win
ning essays are $150, $100, and
$75, to be paid for expenses of
education of the winners—tuition,
books, maintaenance, etc. The
award contest is made possible
by a gift from Dr. Ross Thal
heimer of New York City.
Winners Advance
Among contestants from for
mer years, one who received hon
orable mention in *1948 is a can
didate for a degree at Shaw Uni
versity and is listed in Who’s Who
Among American Students. The
girl who won first prize in 1949
is completing her junior year as
an honor student at Howard Uni
versity studying English. She in
tends to go into journalism after
her graduation. The 1950 first
prize winner is working in the
construction field, and plans to
study architecture at Anderson
College, Anderson, Ind., this fall.
The 1948 second prize winner is
a May graduate in chemistry of
Shaw University, and is "anxi
ous to become an industrial chem
ist.”
CLAYTON P. LEWIS
Clayton P. Lewis, Most Wor
shipful Grand Master, of Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ne-'
braska and Jurisdiction was
elected to serve his eighth term, at
the 30th annual Communication
held in Omaha July 18th.
Mrs. Bradley to
Attend Convention
Mrs. Beulah Bradley, wife of
Charles Bradley, 2148 T street,!
has been choser by Post No. 8,
U.S. Army Mothers, as delegate
to the national convention of the
organization in Portland, Ore.,
Sept. 17 to 20. Mrs. Bradley is
commander of the local chapter.
Polio Hits Hard
SHREVEPORT, La. — (ANP)—
Dreaded polio continues to make
headway here, and the count as of
July 18 last: Negro victims, 48,
white 47.
Usually white victims outnum
ber Negro cases, but presently the
latter have taken the lead.
Principals In Big Memphis Mortgage Buying
J Two of the nation’s outstanding life insurance companies have bought $550,000 in first mortgages
Jon Negro homes in file New Elliston Heights subdivision in Memphis. The Universal Life Insurance
company has invested $300,000 in mortgages and the Atlanta Life of Georgia, $250,000. The North
Carolina Mutual, located in Durham, also bought a supply of first mortgages.
The above picture shows the principals in the purchasing of the mortgages. From left to right: G. W.
Lee, a direotor of the Atlanta company; F. A. Toomer, its auditor; E. M. Martin, a vice president and
secretary; W. H. Smith, a vice president; A. Maceo Walker, secretary of the Universal Life; A1 Thomp
son, regional director of housing; A. J. Florida, the promoter of the project; and Dr. J. E. Walker, presi-'
dent of Universal Life.—(ANP)
Unio.. League Refuses Food
To Dr,\ P, Julian At Dinner
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Funeral Held
Far S. Hanger
Saybert Hanger, 1915 No. 28th
street, Omaha, Neb., died Sunday
morning at his home.
Mr. Hanger was born in 1900 at
Macon, Mo. He has practiced law
since 1936 when he was graduated
from the Omaha University of
Law School. He had served the
community in many capacities:'
Senior and Junior Warden and
Lay Reader of the St. Philips the
Deacon Episcopal Church, Scout
Master, former board member of
the Family Welfare Services, co
founder of the Long School P.T.A., ■
one of the organizers of the Corn
husker Golf Club, and board
member of the Old Folks Home.
He was also a member of the Al- i
pha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the
first Negro president of the Omaha
Urban League.
Mr. Hanger is survived by his
wife, lone; daughter, Juanita Ann;'
and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Cor
tez of Omaha, and Cordie Brasher
of Los Angeles. He was a most
devoted husband and father,
i Funeral services were held from
I St. Philips the Deacon Episcopal
,Church Wednesday at 10 a.m. The
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of
Nebraska, A. F. & A. M., Prince
Hall Affiliation, conducted the
service at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mr. Hanger was the Grand At
torney for the Most Worshipful
Grand Lodge of Nebraska. The
Myers Funeral Home was in
charge of the burial.
U.S. Presidents Wilson, Tyler
and Cleveland married while in
office.
Several Incidents Suffered
In Past Months By Julian
NAACP Steps
Into Case of
James Wright
NEW YORK — (ANP) — The,
NAACP announced here Thursday
that it was stepping into the case
of Andy Wright, last of the fam
ous Scottsboro boys to be freed
from jail, who is currently under ;
arrest in Albany, N. Y., on a
charge of raping a 13-year-old
girl.
In its announcement, the or
ganization said that Atty. Thur
good Marshall has been design
ated to handle he legal defense
of the 39-year-old defendant. The
NAACP disclosed that it had re
ceived a report from private de
tectives working on the case
which has led the group to be-,
ilieve Wright is innocent.
| “For this reason aad the addi
tional reasons that as one of the
Scottsboro boys he remains our
j responsibility, we will use every
legal means to defend him."
Wright, whose full name is
James Andrew Wright, was re
leased from the Alabama prison
in 1949. He came to Albany 1!
' months ago and ha' been era
. ployed as a weaver in a knittini
/mill at Cohoes, N. Y.
j His accuser, whose name has
f been withheld, charges the attack
occurred at her mother’s home on
July 3, but that she kept silent
until recently because Wright had
threatened “to cut my throat” if
she informed on him.
CHICAGO —(ANP)— The Union
League, an organization originally
founded by whites and Negroes
during the Civil War, last week
moved to the other end of the
tolerance road by refusing to al
low a Negro scientist, Dr. Percy
Julian, to eat there.
Dr. Julian, research director for
the soya division :f the Glidden
company and recognized as one of
the world’s leading scientists, was
to have attended a luncheon with
34 other scientists from all parts
of the country to hear Dr. Robert
R. Williams, discoverer of Vita
min Bl.
His invitation, sent June 26 by
Dr. Joseph W. Barber, president
of the non-profit Research Corp.
of New York, called for him to at
tent a private luncheon, Wednes
day, at the Union league club, 65
W. Jackson blvd. in downtown
Chicago.
On .he morning of the lunch
eon, Dr. Barker telephoned him,
Dr. Julian said, and told him that
he could not attend. Dr. Julian
said:
j "He said that he must apologize
deepl> to me, b^t that while ar
ranging the place cards for the
luncheon, the Union League club
, | representative advised him that it
| could not allow a Negro to attend
'the luncneon.”
j When the Associated Negro
Press called on the Union League
a secretary to the manager, Tay
lor Hay, answered that “all I
know is what I saw in the papers.’*
She added that the manager
would not return to his office at
least for the rest of the week, and
that the club president, Joseph A.
Matter, is on vacation in Cali
fornia and will not return to the
city until the end of August.
“I cannot mak_ a statement,’*
she said.
Dr. Julian, who during the past
eight months has suffered through
several anti-Negro incidents be
cause of his n ce, had some bitter
comments to make. He said:
"It appears to me that or
ganizations like the Union League
club are as directly responsible as
any other agency for such un
American incidents as the bomb
ing of my home in Oak Park and
the Cicero riots.
"When individuals in high
places behave as the Union
League club behaves, ordinary
citizens follow suit These or
dinary citizens cannot revoke an
invitations as did the Union
League club, they therefore resort
to the bomb and mob violence.”
According to Dr. Julian, Dr.
Barker protested the statement
that the club could not serve a
Negro, but he did tell the lunch
eon why Dr. Julian was absent.
Dr. Barker said Hay told him he
was acting on “explicit instruc
tions” from the clu- *s directors
who have declared a policy of
keeping Negroes out
Hay also is quote , as saying to
I reporters, “This's _ private club.”
Dr. Barker and Dr. Williams left
for New York Immediately after
the luncheon and were not avail
able for comment
This incident is another in a
series of discriminations that
have plagued Dr. Julian during
the past year. On Nov. 22, 1950,
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