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VOL. 5, NO. 47 Lincoln 3. Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday. September 13, 1951
Presit. * J(Ier Praises
Ministei /or 3 Years Work
At the fourth and final quar
terly meeting at Quinn Chapel
A.M.E. church recently, Rev. J. B.
Brooks, pastor of the church, was
highly praised by Presiding Elder
John Adams for the very success
ful program he has carried out in
the past three years.
Rev. Brooks and family came
to Lincoln in 1948 after spend
ing seven years as pastor of Allen
Chapel A.M.E. church in Omaha.
Upon arriving Rev. Brooks
found the church and parsonage
in very poor condition. He im
mediately launched an improve
ment program beginning with re
decoration the interior and ex-1
terior of the church.
The first year he had the floor
carpeted from wall to wall. The
second year brought the remodel
ing of the church basement and
remodeling and furnishing the
parsonage. The third year saw the
purchasing of the dining room
' tables, new heating plant, new
roof and a new Wurlitzer Organ.
Not only did Rev. Brooks re
decorate the church and parson
age but it vas under his super
vision that the senior choir was
organized and equiped with new'
robes.
The only Negro member of the
Ministerial Association Rev.
Brooks was secretary for a one
year term. He is a member of
the Lincoln’s Citizens Improve
ment Committee and is vice
president of the Lincoln Board
of Christian Education.
A member of the Nebraska
Conference for 16 years he has
served on the financial committee
' for 10 years and has been dele
gate to the General Conference
twicte in succession.
To bolster this wonderful
Christian leader is his wife andj
four children. Mrs. Golden Brooks
is a member of the choir, miss-’
ionary and always ready to assist
in any endeavor of the church,
or community.
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Countries In
San Francisco
For Peace Treaty
By Jock Williams
SAN FRANCISCO. (ANP)^
Haiti, Ethiopia, and Liberia are
among the 52 nations of the world
represented here over the past
weekend for the signing of a peace
treaty with Japan, thus officially
ending the eastern phase of World
War II.
War between the Allies and
Germany, however, has not been
officially concluded.
Papers were signed Saturday,
Sept. 8 at 12 noon thus ending
a war with Japan which started
Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese
pulled a sqeak attack on United
States forces at Pearl Harbor in
Hawaii.
In a statement on the peace
negotiations, Jacques Leger, min
ister of foreign affairs for Haiti,
declared:
“The treaty is a victory of char
arity over hatred, over vengeance.
It shows a great and decided prog
ress in our political relationships.”
>>; Delegates from Haiti lived at
the St. Francis hotel; those from
Ethiopia at the St. Francis, and
from Liberia, the Mark Hopkins.
Significant points in this treaty
are that Japan once again will re
sume her position among the fam
. ily of nations in the world and
Dies After Illness
MRS. BREVY MILLER
Mrs. Brevy Miller, 52, of 309
South 20th, died Sunday Septem
ber 9th in St. Louis, Missouri,
where he had gone several months
ago to be with her sister, Dr. X. A.
Hill Fox. She was a member of
Newman Methodist church in
Lincoln and Editor of The Voice
Household Hints column. Sur
vivors are, husband, John; daugh
ter, Mrs. Leona Brown, Detroit,
Mich.; sister, Dr. X. A. Hill Fox,
St. Louis; two brothers, Pahio
M. E. and Henry Hill, both of
New York City.
Three Win Ph.D.’s
And 15 Masters
At Ohio State
COLUMBUS, O. (ANP).—At its
summer Quarter Convention last
week, Ohio State university
awarded a total of 969 degrees in
cluding 471 on the graduate level
of which 104 were doctor of phil
osophy.
Among those receiving Ph.D.’s
were Joseph Carl Dacons, chemis
try, Cleveland; Raymond Wilbur
Hopson, physical education, Hamp
ton, Va., and Samella Sanders
Lewis, fine arts, Columbus.
Among those receiving master’s
degrees were James K. Anthony,
geography, Cleveland; Frank Page
Bolden, physical education, Ta
koma, Md.; Mildred Carlton Col
lier, home economics, Dayton, O.;
John James Cook, history, Griffin,
Ga.; Harold Preston Cooper, edu
cation, Gary, W. Va.
Irma Dorothea Foster, educa
tion, White Plains, N. Y.; Francis
Leonidas Grandison, psychology,
Houston, Tex.; Edith Greenlee
Hodge, education, Dayton; Arthur
Chester Madry, education, Jack
sonville, Fla.; Sidney Roscoe Wat
ers, fine arts, Knoxville, Tex.;
James Edward Williams, educa
tion, Youngstown, O.
Elizabeth Leona Barnett, social
administration, London, W. Va.;
Doyle Shackleford, jr., social ad
ministration, Cincinnati; Charles
Augustus Clark, zoology, Bel
haven, N. C., and Clarence Bur
gess Owens, agronomy, Smithville,
Tex. •
One student, Gerald Edsel Star
key, of Bedford, O., was awarded
three degrees; Master of Science,
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineer
ing, and Bachelor of Metallurgical
Engineering.
that at present Japan will not be
fully militarized.
Natl Urban League Holds
41st Annual Convention
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Enters Medical
School at Va.
By Carter Jewel
RICHMOND — (ANP) — A 19
year-old Negro and a South Ko
rean woman were among the
freshmen who enrolled Sept. 4 for
the beginning of the fall term at
the Medical College of Virginia.
Miss Jean L. Harris, of Rich
mond, became the first member
of her race to enter the Medical
College of Virginia. Two other
Negro students, Henderson An
drew Johnson III, who studied at
Fisk university, and Miss Marjorie
Louise Vaughan, Spelman college,
arrived Friday to be the first Ne
groes to be accepted in the School
of Physical Medicine.
It was announced last January
that Miss Harris would be ac
cepted as a medical student. The
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Vernon
J. Harris, of 1105 N. 29th street,
she is a graduate of Armstrong
iHigh school in the class of 1948.
[She graduated from Virginia
Union university in three years,'
making practically straight “A”
grades.
Negroes have been attending
the Medical College of Virginia
in the St. Philip hospital training
department since 1920, but the
' three students who entered MCV
last week are the first Negroes to
be accepted in their respective
schools.
The admittance of the Negro
students at the Medical college
of Virginia is in line with a new
policy in colleges and universites
almost all of the southern states
to admit Negro applicants for|i
WHITE HOUSE VISITORS
* (A.N.P.)
Among those persons to visit the White House and President
Truman recently were Bishop R. R. Wright Jr., 73; his son, R. R.
Wright III; and two grandsons, R. R., IV, 10; and Philip G., 8. The
visit, "purely a social calT, Was a present from the bishop to his
grandsons, and gave the youngsters a chance to see a picture of their
late great-grandfather, Major R. R. Wri^it Sr., which hangs on a
wall in the White House reception room.
Seated and standing beneath the pictures of President Truman,
and the first president of the U. S.. George Washington, are, left to
right: Phillip: Bishop Wrigh, holding picture of his father, the late
Major B. R. Wright Sr.; R. R. Wright III; and R. R. Wright, IV.
ST. PAUL, Minn.—America must make the wisest and
most efficient use of its total manpower to meet the pres
ent wofld crisis.
And “total manpower” includes the intelligence, skills
and strength of the American Negro.
These statements were made by Tester B. Granger of
New York, executive director of the National Urban
League, at the opening session, September 4, of the na
tional interracial service organization’s 1951 annual con
ference in Hotel Lowry, St. Paul, Minnesota September 3-7.
Non-Partisans
Organize Club I
A group of ladies met at the!
home of Mrs. Birdie Artist and
recently organized what is known!
as the Lincoln Ladies Non- j
Partisan Club. The purpose of the
organization is to stimulate in
terest in voting, housing and is
isueS of general interest to mi
nority groups.
Mrs. Edwards Qualls will serve
(the group as president, Mrs. Kath
(ryn Huston, vice president and
Mrs. Estelle Davis as secretary.
The next meeting will be held
September 14th with Mrs. Birdie
Artis at 1965 Vine Street.
Free Public Grammar
Schools in Gold Coast
ACCRA, Gold Coast, W. A —
(ANP)—Beginning Jan. 1, 1952,
there will be free compulsory ed
ucation for children in the pri
mary school up to grade seven
j Presently there is no free com
/pulsory educafiaa in i*mrt at
British West Africa.
The Republic of Liberia last
'year was able to start free com
pulsory education, and is so far
the only West African country en
joying this amenity.
courses not available to them in
the Negro institutions of their
native states. '
ihe whole Urban League
movement” said Governor Sid
McMath of Arkansas, addressing
the closing banquet of the 41st
annual conference of the National
Urban League, “is agreed upon
one objection and that is to elim
inate inequalities and handicaps
that interfere with the achieve
ment of equality of opportunity.”
Governor Luther W. Youngdahl
of Minnesota, introduced Gover
nor McMath.
More than six hundred trained
social workers, lay leaders,
specialists and industrial rela
jtions, vocational guidance, and
community problems came to
gether to exchange work experi
ences, to report on the progress
i of racial integration in the multi
tudmous urban situations in the
United States, to consider the
i most pressing problems still to
I be solved, and to reaffirm their
mutual aims and goals. “This
conference was the largest in
League history,” reported R.
. Maurice Moss, conference chair
l man.
j The Si. Paul Urban League, of
which Rev. Francis J. Gilligan is
Board Chairman and S. Vincent
Owens, Executive Secretary, was
host to the conference. Mrs.
iLeona Winner was chairman of
the local conference committee.
On Tuesday afternoon Louis BL
Seltzer, editor Cleveland (Ohio)
; press and P. L. Prattis, executive
editor Pittsburgh Courier, (Pa.)
;lead the discussion on the "Role
of the Press in Promoting Race
Relations.” Herbert Lewis, editor
St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dis
patch, presided over the meeting,
while Mayor Edward K. Delaney
of St. Paul, welcomed the dele
gates.
LABOR LUNCHEON
James B. Carey, National CIO
Secretary and George W. Snow
den, Vice President, Louisiana
Federation of Labor (AFL), spoke
on “The Role of Organized Labor
in Promoting Better Race Rela
tions.” Both speakers commended
the co-operative and constructive
work of the League with Organ
ized Labor. Cecil E. Newman,
publisher and editor of the Min
neapolis Spokesman, presided
over this meeting
In the afternoon session
Deputy Administrator, James J.
Wadsworth, U. S. Civil Defense
Administration, spoke on Civil
Defense.
President Truman sent a letter
to the league headquarters at the
Hotel Lowry praising the league
for choosing as its theme, “Match
ing Manpower to National Needs."
Featuring the Thursday evening
dinner meeting was the presenta
tion of the 1951 annual report of
the St. Paul Urban League by
Rev. Gilligan, League president.
More than 700 members attended.
Federal aid for public elemen
tary and secondary schools of the
nation was urged Friday in a reso
lution adopted at the closing ses
sions.
Other resolutions proposed
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