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Miss Bethune and Johnson
Among The Four Elected
NEW YORK (ANP) — Mrs.
Mary McLeod Bethune, founder
president emeritus of Bethune
Cookman college, and John H.
Johnson, head of the Johnson
publishing house, were among
four persons elected to the board
of directors of the United Negro
College fund, W. J. Trent, Jr., ex
ecutive director of the fund, an
nounced last week.
The other two were Chauncey
L. Waddell, New York, president
of investment firm of Waddell &
Reed, and Charles I. Denechaud,
Jr., New Orleans attorney.
Mrs. Bethune recently resigned
from the Civil Defense committee
in Washington. She has been ac
tive in public affairs for many
years. A former president of the
National Council of Negro Women,
she now is president of an insur
ance company.
Johnson is the founder and pub
lisher of Ebony, Negro Digest,
Jet, and Tan Confessions, maga
zines.
Thomas A. Morgan, president of
Sperry corporation will again
serve as chairman of the fund’s
board. Other members reelected
this year include:
C. Arthur Bruce, executive vice
president, E. L. Bruce Co., Mem
phis, Tenn.; George H. Burcham,
comptroller, Chase National bank,
New York; William E. Cotter,
counsel, Union Carbide fit Carbon
corporation, New York; Walter D.
Fuller, president, the Curtis Pub
lishing company, Philadelphia, Pa.
Also Walter Hoving, president,
Hoving corporation, New York;
Mordecai W. Johnson, president,
Howard university, Washington;
Fowler McCormick, chairman of
the board, International Harvester
Co.; Willard S. Townsend, Inter
national president, United Trans
port Service Employees, CIO; Mrs.
Chauncey L. Waddell, New York,
Dr. George L. Hightower, Atlanta,
Ga and Dr. Linesly F. Kimball,
▼ice president, The Rockefeller
Foundation, New York.
Besides these, the 32 presidents
of the member colleges also are
members of the fund’s board.
Marques Haynes
Gets Draft Call
SAND SPRINGS, Okl.—(ANP)
—Marquis Haynes was called to
report to the local draft board,
number 75 for a physical exam
ination, this week.
Results of the examination were
not obtained.
Haynes has just begun his first
year as captain of the world fa
mous Harlem Globetrotters bas
ketball team.
Our Honor Roll
The following are some of
those who are new subscribers
or have renewed their subscrip
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Wm. F. Bell, Lincoln
Wm. Brown, Lincoln
Mrs, Gould B. Flagg, Sr., Lin
coln
Mrs. L. W. Horne, Lincoln
Mrs. Harold Allen, Basset, Neb.
Mrs. Blanche Moore, Omaha.
Mrs. Lena Sampson, Omaha
Mrs. Evelyn McGinnis, Kansas
City, Mo.
Governors
To Observe
Carver Day
NEW YORK (ANP)—Some 10
governors and one mayor have
joined the ranks of public officials
who have agreed to officially pro
claim Jan. 5, as George Washing
ton Carver Day, in honor of the
eminent Tuskegee Institute scien
tist.
They are:
Adlai E. Stevenson, governor of
Illinois; Arthur B. Langlie, gover
nor of Washington; Theodore R
McKeldin, governor of Maryland;
Frederick G. Payne, governor of
Maine; Okely L. Patterson, gov
ernor of West Virginia; Elbert N.
Carvel, governor of Delaware; Sid
McMath, governor of Arkansas.
Also Dan Thornton, governor of
Colorado; Johnston Murray, gov
ernor of Oklahoma; and John
Lodge of Connecticut, and David
L. Lawrence, mayor of Pittsburgh.
The National Achievement
Clubs, Inc., is sponsoring Carver
Day in recognition of the many
benefits realized from the scien
tist's work.
Ike’s Job Debated
WASHINGTON — Senator Jo
seph C. O’Mahoney (D.) of
Wyoming contends that Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is being
“used” by victory-hungry Repub
licans backing him for President.
“I * don’t think the general
should be used to save either the
Republican Party or the Demo
cratic Party,” Senator O’Mahoney
told reporters. “His job (as com
mander of North Atlantic de
fense forces in Europe) is to save
the nation.”
Another Democratic Senator,
Hubert H. Humphrey of Minne
sota, who has just returned from
Western Europe, said he found
people there “very disturbed” by
talk that General Eisenhovrer
may run for President.
“Nearly everybody I talked to
is hoping Eisenhower will stay
in Europe,” he said.
Miss Quinn Chapel Crowned
The crowning of Miss Quinn
Chapel by the First Ten club, took
place Friday night. The honors
went to Miss Betty Lou Bradley, i
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Bradley. Miss Bradley’s escort
was Clifford Dunn. Her attend
ants were second and third place
winners, Miss Vonna Finley and
I Miss Shirley Conrad. Miss Mattie
Sue Nevels was fourth.
Rev. Melvin L. ' Shakespeare,
president of the club, crowned
Miss Bradley.
pillowing the crowning coffee
and cake were served in the base
ment by members of the club.
Pictured (from left) Miss Fin
ley, Clifford Dunn, Rev. Shakes
peare, placing the crown, Miss
Quinn Chapel and Miss Conrad.
Fla. NAACP Leader Killed As
Home Is Bombed; Wife Injured
March o f Dimes
1952Campaign
To Be Jan. 2-31
Despite great Strides in learn
ing more about the causes and
treatment
strking more Nebraska children
and grownups more severely each,
each year.
During the three year period of
1948-50, according to Dr. R. G.
Gustavson, Chancellor of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and Ne
braska March of Dimes chairman,
there were 1,856 cases of polio.
This is more than the number
of cases, 1,823, reported in Ne
braska from 1920 to 1945.
Putting it another way, Dr.
Gustavson said, the average yearly
total of 99 cases for the previous
ten years.
The National' Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, Dr. Gustavsoa
said, has gone over five and one
half million dollars “in the red’-’
caring for emergency cases of
polio.
“This, means only one thing,”
Dr. Gustavson said. “E very
county in Nebraska must buckle
down to the task to help end the
need for deficit financing.
“Everyone in each county must
be asked in 1952 to contribute
dollars $o the March of Dime*
campaign which has been ex
tended for this year from Janu
ary 2 to January 3i, instead ,o
the usual two-week period.”
Virginia Medical Society
Branch OKs Admission
WOODSTOCK, Va. (ANP—Ap
proval of the admission of Negroes
as members of the Medical Society
I of Virginia was voted last week by
the Northern Virginia branch of
the society despite failure of the
group to pass a proposal at its
1951 convention.
A proposal to admit colored
doctors to the organization failed
to pass by five votes at the 1951
convention.
MIMS, Fla. (ANP). Death poked its tragic head into the
1 tense interracial situation in Florida, Christmas night, when
Negro haters bombed tne home of a militant NAACP leader,
killing him, and hospitalizing his wife.
Dead in the race-hate incident, the 10th in a series of
bombings plaguing the Miami area since June, is Harry T.
Moore, 46, school teacher and until recently executive sec
j retary for Florida for (he state NAACP.
Youth Wins Public
Speaking Contest
COLUMBIA, S. C.—(ANP)—In
competition with 11 white and
five Negro students, Reginald La
Vong, 18 year old freshman stu-,
dent at Harbison Junior college
won first prize in the Columbia,
S. C. area Voice of Democracy
public speaking contest held here
recently.
La Vong’s address now will be
transcribed and presented in a
statewide contest from which a
winner will be selected for the na
tional competition.
The winner was selected, by a
panel who did not see the con
testants, on the basis of content,
delivery and originality.
Harbison college, Irmo, S. C.,
is a junior college for Negroes
sponsored by the Board of Na
tional Missions of the Presbyteriar
Church in the U.S.A.
Sent to a hospital in nearby
Sanford, Fla. with hip bruises and
internal injuries was the dead
man’s wife, Mrs. Harriet Moore,
49.
Escaping injury were the dead
man’s mother, Mrs. Rosa Moore,
and his daughter, Annie, who
were asleep in the next room
when the bombing occurred.
Latest developments in the case
are as follows:
Two FBI (federal bureau of in
vestigation) agents and state and
county authorities reportedly are
investigating the incident.
Rewards totalling nearly $9,000
have been offered for the appre
hension of the person or persons
guilty of the bombing.
Walter White, executive secre
tary of the national office of
NAACP, from New York de
jnounced the murder, and called
on federal and state authorities to
do something to halt the terror
in Florida.
Fear of future bombings — of
Negroes, Jews and Catholics —
I still gripped the people in this
area.
1 Applications Accepted
’ For Art Fellowships
NEW YORK (ANP)—Applica
tj tions now are being accepted for
three student fellowships to be
/awarded by the Metropolitan Mu-.
seum of Art to qualified graduate
students in the Fine Arts depart
ments of universities in the United
States.
Valued at $4,000 each, the fel
lowships are for study at the Mu
seum during 1952-53.
Applications must be in Feb. 15,
1952, and mailed to Sterling A.
Callisen, dean of Education and
Extension at the Metropolitan
Museum.
To be eligible, students must
have finished at least two years of
graduate work by June, 1952, in
the history of art, archeology, or
museum training at recognized
American college or university. <
They also must furnish proof of
exceptional ability and promise in i
their field and have an adequate
reading knowledge-of French and i
German, as well as any special- i
ized linguistic skill called for by
their research projects.
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Physical Therapist
To State Committee
CHICAGO. (ANP) — Miss
Thelma Brown, ■ chief physical
therapist of Provident hospital,
was one of three persons selected
from 15 nominees for an appoint
ment to the Physical Therapy Ex
amining committee of the State
Department of Registration and
Education for the purpose of reg
istering physical therapists in the
state of Illinois. She is the first
Negro to receive an appointment
to this committee.
A graduate of Provident hos
pital nursing school, Miss Brown
was the first Negro woman to|
successfully complete the physical
therapy course at Northwestern
university.
She became head of the physi
cal therapy department at Provi
dent in 1946.
Story oi Moore, Bombing
I It is believed by Negro leaders
1 in Florida and out that Moore
'j was killed because of his mili
ftance in demanding their consti
tutional rights for Negroes.
To devote his time to NAACP
I work he gave up his job as a
| teacher. He also has been ex
ecutive secretary of the Progres
sive Voters’ League of Florida.
Inc., an organization which con
ducted state campaigns to get
Negroes to the polls.
According to his wife, Moore
had been threatened in the past
because he was “trying to put
things over too fast,” but she
said she knew of no direct warn
ings against his life.
The fatal bomb was placed
right under the bed in which
Moore and his wife slept. The
explosion wrecked most of the
front part of his modest one
story frame home. The front door
was ripped loose, and the whole
bedroom was tom apart, board by
board.
Federal and state investigators
still are not sure of what type of
bomb was used to wreck the
home, nor do they know who the
guilty entered the home.
Moore apparently was a mem
ber of a family of school teachers.
His wife teaches at Lake Park
near West Palm Beach, his
mother teaches at Jacksonville,
and his daughter instructs in
Ocala.
Incident Linked With
Grovelaud Killing
Walter White as well as local
Negro leaders also connected the
incident with the recent shooting
of the Groveland Two by the
sheriff of Lake county in Eustis,
only 60 miles west of Mims.
White denounced the action as
part of a “reign of terror and
violence which has afflicted
Florida in recent months. In a
statement, he declared:
“Although repeatedly appealed
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