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Commissions l o lieport At Urban League Conf. Lester Granger To Give Address NEW YORK, N. Y.—Six hun dred and fifty delegates from 58 cities in 30 states are expected to attend the 1951 Annual Con ference of the National Urban League to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 3rd-7th, it was announced today by R. Maur ice Moss, the League’s associate executive director who is serving also as conference chairman. The League is the nation’s oldest and only voluntary interracial service agency. The conference theme is “Matching Manpower to National Needs.” Mr. Moss stated that the four day parley will feature outstand ing speakers in industry and la bor, social work and education, government and civic affairs, who will discuss the economic and so cial problems faced by all Ameri cans today as we move to build a stronger America for the attain ment of peace and security both here and abroad. Editors Review The Role of The Press The conference will open with registration on Monday, Septem ber 3rd, at the conference head quarters, Hotel Lowry. The first day’s activities will include a press luncheon with Rev. Francis J. Gilligan of St. Paul Seminary and president of the St. Paul Urban League and S. Vincent Owens, the League’s executive secretary, as hosts. The conference program will highlight a series of panel discus sions by experts under the super vision of five commissions related to housing, health, community service, industrial relations and vocational guidance, and general race relations. “The Role of the Press in Pro moting a Strong Race Relations in a Free Society,” is the topic for discussion at a luncheon to be held on Tuesday, September 4th. The participants will be P. L Prattis, executive director of the PITTSBURGH COURIER; and (See Urban League, Page 3) Royal Crown Midway At Nebr. State Fair The 1951 Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln, September 2-7, will boast one of the most complete entertainment programs in the history of the Comhusker festival, according to Ed Schultz, secretary of the State Fair Board. The complete program will, in fact, compare very favorably with that of any other fair in the en tire nation, Schultz added. Probably the most popular en tertainment feature at the 1951 Fair will be the nightly Bames Carruthers Nebraska State Fan Revue for 1951, which will take place in front of the Grandstand. Four large production numbers, including the spectacular Disap pearing Water Ballet, plus a score of individual arid small-group] specialty act make this review one of the best in the country. The Royal Crown Midway, featuring 21 thrilling and com pletely different rides and as sorted carnival and side-show] amusements, will add to the festive spirit of Fair Week. As an added attraction at the] 1951 Fair, Schultz announced re-] cently that the Barnes Brothers ..... ? —Courtesy Lincoln Journal-Star LESTER GRANGER NAACP To Appeal Topeka School Suit Decision NEW YORK — CANP) — An appeal will made to the United States Supreme Court from the decision of a three-judge federal court which upheld the segrega tion of school children in Topeka, Kansas, Robert L. Carter, assist ant special counsel of the local NAACP, announced recently. NAACP lawyers sought in validation of the state statute au thorizing segregation; however, ! the court found that Physical facilities, the curricula, qualifi cations and quality of teachers, as well as other educational facilities in the two sets of schools were comparable. The court admitted that segre gation of white and colored children in public has a detri mental effect upon the colored children. The state has no consistent pattern. In some communities, all schools are mixed; in others, the grade schools are segregated and the high schools mixed. Sept. l-8th cIhe Voice Appreciation Week Watck For It Circus will be at the Fair on Monday and Tuesday for Grand stand performances. It will be real three ring circus, and is ex pected to draw a lot of kids on Tuesday, which is traditionally Childrens’ Day at the Nebraska State Fair. The three-day auto racing pro gram and the two automobile thrill shows are other headline entertainment features, not to mention the All-Golden Palomino horse show on Sunday, the nightly fireworks displays at the Grandstand, and many, many others. ,‘After all,” as Schultz puts it, “it is the Fair Board’s job to give the people of Nebraska a Fair they want to see. So we aim to entertain them at the same time that we are teaching them.” Findley Runs For Cleveland School Board CLEVELAND—Ralph Findley, distinguished civic leader, will run lor election to the school I board this fall. If elected, he will be the only Negro on the board. In 1949 Findley narrowly missed being elected to the school board, though he polled 99,000 votes. His failure was a result of 1 the neglect of qualified Negro voters to register and vote. Cleveland in 1949 had a poten tial Negro vote of 62,000. Only 26,000 cast their ballots in the school board election. 36,000 quali fied voters either did not register or did not vote. Since 6,000 more votes would have elected Findley, it is obvious that there are easily enough potential votes to elect him this fall. Findley is confident that the next election will put him on the school board, where he will rep resent Cleveland’s 130,000 Negro citizens. His campaign will be directed by W, O. Walker, editor owner of the Cleveland Call & Post and president of the board of Cleveland Urban League. Findley, who is assistant sec retary of the Fireside Mutual In surance Company, has long been active in civic affairs. A member of the Community Relations Board, he has for many years | been associated with both the Cleveland branch NAACP and the Cleveland Urban League. He is presently serving as NAACF L president and as A board membei .jot the Urban League. Lincoln Printers I Locate In St. Louis Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lytle, owners of the Lytle Printing 'Company, 2120 O Street left for j St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday where Mr. Lytle has accepted a (position as branch manager for (Brandtjen & Kluge, Inc. He has been in the printing business for 25 years. s Mr. and Mrs. Lytle were known best for their religious and civic work in Lincoln. They were mem bers of St. Paul Methodist church where Mrs. Lytle was a member of the official board, twice elected w # j president of Wesleyan Service Guild and a member of the Busi ness Women’s Club. In the field of race relations, Mr. and Mrs. Lytle’s cpntribution is inestimati-| ble. They were members of the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League’s board of directors and affiliated with other organizations of community interest. They are ardent supporters and were first [printers of The Voice. When com mended for the contribution 'which they have made, especially ■in the field of Race Relations they stated, “We gained more than we’ve given.” ' Mr. Lytle is in charge of a five State territory with his office at 2226 Olive Street. Mrs. Ellen Lytle, mother of Mr. Lytle and Mrs. Mable Clark, sis ter to Mrs. Lytle are a part of the family and will be at home with the Lytles at 5123 Maple i Avenue in St. Louis. Seek Heirs of ! Robert B. Chubb PHILADELPHIA. (ANP). Any one having information regard ing the heirs of Robert B. Chubb, deceased, a former veteran and 1 resident of Philadelphia, is re 95,000 See Intergrated Concert In Chicago Park CHICAGO. (ANP)—Crowds to talling 95,000 jammed around the band shell Saturday and Sunday nights for the Grant Park con cert’s Cole Porter Night program. Etta Moten was one of four guest artists featured in an integrated program. Also featured were two Negroes in the Chicago Park District Opera guild chorus which backed up the four stars in the musical numbers. This marked the first Appeals Court Asked to End School Bias WASHINGTON (ANP)—A pe tition was filed with the U.S. court of appeals here last week asking segregation in local public schools. The petition, filed by Attys. George E. C. Hayes and James M. Nabrit, Jr., in behalf of a group of parents whose children were denied admission to the Sousa Junior High school last September because of their race, charged: “Segregation constitutes pun ishment for Negro children.” It asked the court to reexamine and revise its previous decision upholding segregated schools un der the “separate but equal” doc trine laid down by the U.S. Su , preme court. ^ \ “That segregation constitutes . punishment is the only conclusion It hat can be reached from a con sideration of the studies of segre loation and its e authorities jy, politics, po/v.ni/iV5/ auu . i law. Children are entitled to free 'dom from outrage on the feel ings,” the brief stated. “The whole theory upon which a segregate school system is main tained is that the dominant class regards the segregated group so far inferior a to require quaran tining the latter during school hours to avoid contamination of the children of the dominant group. Realization of this motive, when it comes to a child of a seg regated class, cannot help but cause mental anguish and re peated reminders of the implica tions of segregation keep one’s awareness of the badge of infer iority fresh during the remainder of one’s life.” 4,061 Negro Families Feel Flood Damage A total of $.061 Negro families in the state of Missouri and Kan-j sas, suffered the loss of homes j and property in the devastating July 13 flood, it was revealed this week by figures compiled by the rehabilitation director of the American Red Cross. Of these families, 3,490 were in Kansas and 571 in Jackson county, Mo. Kansas City, Kas., had 2,397 Negro flood victims and 6,497 white victims. Other Kansas towns and the number of victims were: Manhat tan, 126 colored, 523 white; Ot tawa, 46 colored, 490 white; June quested to write to Atty. Sadie Alexander, 40 So. 19th st., Phila delphia. Chubb was the son of Mrs. Angleline Chubb of Detroit, who formerly lived in Rome, Ga. If the heirs are not located, the state and federal government will claim the balance of the estate, it is reported. time in the 17-year history of the concerts here that Negroes have been used in the choral group. Singing With the chorus were Albert Yarborough and John Bur dette, both tenors. They also will sing with the chorus in the con cert presentation of Verdi’s famed opera, “Rigol etto,” at the closing concerts for the season at Grant park. Addition of the colored tenors to the guild came through efforts by Miss Moten. Hearing that the chorus was short of tenors, she suggested the use of Negro sing ers. Walter L. Larsen, managing di rector of the Grant Park concerts, okayed her proposal with the stipulation that the vocalists be able to sight read music. Yarbor ough and Burdette both qualified and were signed up. Miss Moten was integrated as a guest star of the program along with three white artists, Annette Olsen, soprano, Thomas Hayward, | tenor, and Bruce Foote, baritone. I Presenting the best in music [by Cole Porter, one of America’s top composers in the popular music field, all four artists sang solos, duets, and quartets. Crowds of 50,000, Saturday night, and 45,000, Sunday night, cheered en thusiastically. Miss Moten sang: “In the Still of the Night” from Rosalie in a .duet with Mr. Foote; “I’ve Got lYou Under My Skin” from Any thing Goes accompanied by the ' chorus. I “So in Love” from Kiss Me iKate, and “Night and Day" from The Gay Divorcee with the other three guest artists and the choral ensemble. A mezzo-soprano, Miss Moten (revealed her voice at its sultry I best in “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.’’ Critics from all four Chi cago daily newspapers compli 1 men ted her for this song. This concert proved to be the ■most popular one of the year in size of the crowd and audience 'nthusiasm. It is expected to open up opportunities for more inte gration in these public concerts next year. [tion City, 53 Negro, 249 white; (Lawrence, 135 Negro, 553 white; (Salina, 76 Negro, 606 white; To peka, 657 Negro, 3,051 white. In Jackson county, 830 white families were affected by the flood. Seek Flood Relief For AME Churches The A.M.E. Connectional Lay men’s organization, which held its national meeting in St. Louis this month, adopted a resolution call ing upon the bishops of the A.M.E. church to meet for the purpose of formulating plans to allocate funds to help rehabilitate church property destroyed by the recent devastating floods in the fifth Episcopal district. Specifically, the resolution re quested the “presiding bishop of the Episcopal district to call a meeting of the bishops of all the Episcopal districts within 30 days after the receipt of this commu nication for the purpose of for-, mulating plans to alocate avail able needed funds which have been deposited in the various banks by the general financial secretary of the African Meth odist Episcopal church for the purpose of rehabilitating the church prope~ty destroyed by the recent flood in \ttie Fifth district.