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YOU 5, NO. SO____Lincoln 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper_ Thursday, October 4, 1951
Fed. Govt, to Study Riot
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Action
in the Cicero riot of July 11-12
took a new turn, Thursday, when
Atty. Gen. Howard McGrath an
nounced from Washington, D. C.
that the federal government will
conduct a grand jury hearing on
the trouble.
In the meantime, the Cook
county grand jury which Sept. 18
indicted six persons, none of
whom actually rioted, in a highly
criticized action, failed to issue a
promised long statement on the
reasons for its action.
Instead of the promised “bomb
shell’’ report on the riot, the re
tiring grand jury of 23 white per
sons came out with a simple one
paragraph statement announcing
that it had issued two true bills
and 23 no bills.
One true bill charged Cicero
Police Chief Erwin Konovsky with
failing to exercise his duties in
enforcing the law during the riot.
The other named five persons in
cluding three Negoes, accusing
them of “conspiracy to injure
property. . by causing a deprecia
tion of the real estate market .
price” through rental of the apart
ment in question to a Negro, Har- ,
vey Clark, Jr.
The intervention of the federal
lukewarm enthusiasm by Negro
leaders fighting the county indict
ments.
4 Fraternities
Sever Relations
With Parent Group
STORRS, Conn. — (ANP) —
The anti-discrimination policy set
forth in 1949 and put in effect
this fall at the University of
Connecticut has resulted in 4 of
18 fraternities at the university
severing relations with their na
tional offices.
The fraternities are Lambda
Chi Alpha, Sigma Nu, Kappa
Sigma, and Sigma Chi.
Albert N. Jorgensen, president
of the university said in 1949
that beginning in September of J
1951, the use of university^owned
buildings and property would be
denied to organizations governed
by constitutions containing
clauses that discriminated against
racial or religious groups.
The 1949 proclamation came a
month after a referendum held
by the student Senate on a, pro
posal to strike out all discrimina
tory clauses in the constitutions
or bylaws of all groups on the
campus. Some 38 per cent of the
student body voted and passed
the proposal 1,267 to 210.
July Race Riots
To Be Probed
WASHINGTON. Attorney
General hJcGrath said he is or
dering a federal grand jury inves
tigation of the July race disorders
in Cicero, HI., which developed
when a Negro family tried to
move into a white neighborhood.
Rioting involving an estimated
3,000 persons broke out and was
brought under control only after
the national guard was called out.
The riots wrecked the apartment
building so badly it is still un
occupied, MfG»*ath was told.
The Cook county grand jury
indicted the chief of police foi
not controlling the mob, and the
owner of the apartment house, the
attorney who represented the Ne
gro tenant, and others cm charges
of conspiracy to cause a riot
The FBI also investigated, anc
McGrath said that, on the bash
of its findings, he will bring the
i case before a jury.
ROBERT B. CROSBT
Robert B. Crosby of North
Platte, former lieutenant gov
ernor, states that he is encour
aged with bis early campaign
ing for the republican nomina
tion for governor.
Red Cross Bows
To Segregation
BIRMINGHAM. — (ATP).—
The American Red Cross last
week bowed to Birmingham ra
cism and announced that it would
continue to segregate Negro blood
from white because it did not
wish to disobey local segregation
laws.
I The local chapter of thf
, NAACP previously had con
demned the practice of having
colored persons give blood on a
certain day, and called it absurd
and undemocratic.
Frank W. Sheppard, head of
the blood bank drive, took refuge
in city laws and said:
“The Red Cross does not want
to be put into the position of dis
obeying the laws of the city.”
Although admitting that there
was no difference in blood, Shep
pard defended Red Cross action
in marking the blood Negro or
white as a means of offering
physicians and persons who are
to receive the blood of choice of
blood.
History shows that the press
has been uniformly on the side of
the common people.
Wyoming had a newspaper in
1869 before it became a territory.
The Civil war developed an ap
petite for news among the people.
Proclamation for National
Newspaper Week
A free and responsible press is one of the foundations of the
United States government. It is guaranteed in the first amend
ment of the Constitution. Without a free press our liberty would
be doomed.
The American people must never forget that the newspapers
light the way of freedom. It is fitting that the attention of all of
us should be called to the part newspapers play in a government
of free men.
THEREFORE, I, Val Peterson, Governor of Nebraska hereby
proclaim the week of October 1 to October 8, 1951, as
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK
and urge all Nebraskans to hold fast to their faith in a free press,
one of the principles of freedom.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Great Seal of the State of Nebraska to be affixed.
Done at the Capitol in the City
of Lincoln, this 24th day of Sep
tember, in the Year of Our Lord,
One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Fifty-One.
, /s/ VAL PETERSON
Community Chest Campaign
Set To Start October 11th
[Drive Sturts
To Send Team
To Olympics
NEW YORK.—With its sights
set at $250,000 for sending the
best American horses and riders [
to Finland to compete in next I
summer’s Olympics, the U.S.}
Equestrian team today (Sept. 25)
launched a nationwide campaign
to raise funds to prevent any,
break in traditional American
participation in Olympic equine
events.
Stiff eliminations now being
conducted at Fort Riley, Kas.,
are determining membership of;
the U.S. team, which will be an
all-civilian, all-amateur squad for
the first time in history. With
the U.S. Army team disbanded
after the 1948 Olympics, trained
horses have had to be contributed
and the best riders picked from
10 zonal trials to compete in the
finals early next month.
“At a time when the world
1 looks toward the U.S. for leader
1 ship, we feel it would be disas
t trous to fail for the first time to
{ send an equestrian team to the
Olympics,” Whitney Stone, execu
tive committee chairman of th<
E team, said today in New York h
“ announcing the drive. “Ever sinci
} the Olympics introduced equint
i competition in 1912, we have
I been represented by riders and
j horses who have won high honors.
' We cannot afford to default
t now.”
The U S. Equestrian Team, Inc.,
; a non-profit organization with
headquarters in Warrenton, Va.,
is the official agent for selecting
the American team. Last year’s
members, which included two
women for the first time, won
' seven firsts and 29 other ribbons,
■ including the coveted In
! ternational Perpetual Challenge
Trophy. The team will give its
last U.S. preview to the Olympics
at the National Horse Show start
ing October 30 in New York.
Last year’s team, all of which
are competing now at Fort Riley,
comprised Mrs. Carol Duran, 33,
Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Norma
Matthews Lauer, 28, Sacramento,
Calif., and Arthur McCashin, 42,
. Pluckemin, N. J.
Goal for 1952 is $352,684
Mrs. C. R. Meeker
Directs AME Choir
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—Photo By Randol ,
MRS. CLEO ROSS MEEKER i
When the Nebraska Conference 1
Branch Woman’s Missionary con- j
vention met in Kansas City last
week, six delegates to the Qud
rennial convention held in Mem- j
phis, Tennessee, July 7-14, re
ported to the society of one of
the most successful meetings of
the organization.
The music was of special sig
A silver anniversary of success
ful campaigns and the continua
tion of a nationwide record will
be at stake in Lincoln’s 1952 Com
munity Chest drive which opens
Oct. 11.
For each of the past 24 years
Lincoln has filled its Red Feather
quota and this year will be shoot
ing for a quarter century of suc
cess. This constitutes a record
among U. S. cities with Commu
nity Chest programs.
Going into its 30th campaign,
the Lincoln Community Chest
shows a successful completion
to 26 of the past drive. The
program was iniated in the city
in 1923.
the Red Feather in Lincoln is
shown by the fact that in the first
drive 6,786 subscribers contributed
$96,885 to the fund. Last year
27,383 persons gave a total of
$382,985. With the exception of a
war year, 1945, last year set a new
record in Lincoln Community
Chest participation,
j The goal for 1952 has been
set at $352,684 with 28,000 to
'30,000 persons expected to con
tribute. About 1,700 volunteer
workers will assist in the cam
' paign. 11 this year’s goal is reached
E it will mark a record high in the
|city’s Red Feather activities.
-{ Since being started in Lincoln
nificance and Lincoln can kx
j
justly proud of the accomplishec
' concert artist and organist, Mrs.
f Cleo Ross Meeker, who served
as director of the Combined
Choirs for the Quadrennial Con
tention of the Woman’s Mission-!
ary Society. Mrs. Meeker arrived:
in Memphis two weeks before to,
help shape up the more than one[
hundred voices which repre
sented virtually all the AME
Churches in the Memphis vicin
ity. Rev. H* McDonald Nelson,
pastor of St. James AME Church,
was chairman of the music com-J1
mittee for the host churches of:
Memphis.
Nebraska-born, Mrs. Meeker
has pursued a successful music
career since her early youth here
in Lincoln, where she completed
high school work and later uni
versity studies in music at Ne
braska University. She did grad
uate work at Nebraska, Minne- 1
sota University, and Columbia,
and has filled a number of con
cert engagements in many sec
tions of the country. Presently
she is identified with the public
schools of Tulsa, Oklahoma where
she serves as director of the Dun
bar School Choral Club and
Senior Choir of Mt. Vernon
A.M.E. Church, and the “Sweet
heart” of The Tulsa Civic Malej
Chorus, one of the most outstand- J
ing organized group of male:
voices in the southwest.
Mrs. Meeker is daughter of thei
late Nimrod Ross.
Notes of Interest
Word was received Monday (
morning by Fred Bradley, 826 C
street, of the death of his father,)
prof. James Bradley of River.
Falls, Ala. I
Mr. Bradley left immediately!
with uncles, Zell and Green Brad
ley of Omaha for River Falls.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Howard of
Omaha were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Johnson at the T.C.U.
Nebraska game Saturday.
e about $5,300,000 has been con
Jj An indication of the growth of
/tributed to the Chest. In addition,
[ the Community Chest organization
has collected about $1 million for
Red Cross campaigns during the
[past nine years.
{ This year, for the first time, a
(joint Red Cross and Community
Chest solicitation will be held for
groups of employes wherever the
employes and firms wish to com
bine the drives. *
Executive Secretary Louis W.
Horne, who has directed Lincoln
Community Chest since it was
started, explains that the 1952
quota represents a 15 percent in
crease over last year’s. Nine per
cent of this is due to increased
costs and the remainder to larger
amounts for the United Defense
fund which includes the U.S.O.
and Korean relief.
Carl W. Olson is Community
Chest president and Albert A.
Held is general chairman of the
fund raising drive.
Monte Irvin
A Candidate
NEWARK. — (ANP) — Monte
Irvin, slugging outfielder for the
' New York Giants, has been desig
! nated candidate for election to
jthe New Jersey Assembly from
• the Newark section. Irvin, mar
ried, father of two qhildren, is a
Lincoln university grad and has
the honor of being one of its
greatest all around athletes.
Last August, Irvin was honored
at the Polo Grounds when he
was presented a car and other
gifts.
He is the first professional
baseball player to enter politics.
Since he is running in his native
state, it should not be difficult
for him to win. Everybody knows
monte and likes him, so his elec
tion should be a cinch.
The two world wars increased
the appetite for foriegn news in
!the United States.