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About The voice. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1946-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1952)
* ■■■ i, ■ • ■ . ... ■■ • tv nrc-ns ’ - -t+iW'S ■rf.j - nil mu i i " i hi'i i >nmn ii i n imi*h i i i i ■ mu iwn'n"i • jm ^ • ■ ;v ''Miiiwfg; House-Trailer Fire Is Fatal To John W. Cason A $50 trailer fire that went un noticed snuffed out the life last week end of a 46-year-old Lin coln man. Victim of the blaze which burned itself out inside the small trailer was John William Cason, an employe of the Northwestern Iron and Metal company. His body was found Sunday morning in the trailer located in the rear of 526 North Nineteenth. Cason reftted the eight by 12 structure from John Nelson, who lives at that address, for $10 a month. Deputy Sheriff Leslie C. Has son, acting coroner, said death was caused by suffocation and burns. Hasson estimated the fire hap pened between 10 p.m. and mid night Saturday. There was no fire alarm. The fire did little damage to the structure. A mattress on a rollaway bed, where the blaze evi dently originated, was destroyed. Paint on the inside walls was cooked off. "The heat must have been terrific,” Hasson said. Some of the wood furnishings and the windows were scorched a light brown. Papers and some books in a cardboard box found under the bed were only burned in spots. Cason’s body was found about 10 s.m. slumped over a small table, Hasson reported. The clothing be was wearing was not burned, but the deputy sheriff said Cason was badly burned on the right side of his body and on the neck. Hasson said Cason apparently was lying on the bed when the fire broke out. He said he did not know how the fire started but said there was no stove explosion. Cason might have been smoking in bed, he added. No Inquest The acting coroner said the fire apparently consumed all of the oxygen in the trailer and then went out. The blaze did not burn through the trailer’s insulated walls. Hasson said he saw no reason for an autopsy or an inquest at this time. Nelson said he came back from Omaha, where he is em ployed, about 1:49 a.m., Sun day. He said he thought he smelled something burning but after searching Us house, dis missed it from his mind. Sun day morning, he said, he again ! noticed the burned odor and then went out to the trailer, which is only about four feet from the house, and found Cason’s body. He then notified the city police who called the county sheriffs office. Nelson said Cason had been liv ing in the trailer since about Nov. 23. The last time he is known to have been seen alive was about 5 p.m., Saturday, when neighbors saw him. Cason was the second Lincoln fire death within two weeks. The other victim was Frank Craig, 77, who was burned to death Dec. 24 when fire swept through the con verted chicken house in which he had been living in the rear of 2444 North Eighth. Cason, who had lived in Lincoln for short periods during the past few years, was born in Ottumwa, la. He had recently been living in Clinton, la., until he came to Lin coln in the fall. EDWARD C. FISHER Judge Edward C. Fisher an- j nounced today that he will not be^ a candidate for re-election to the Municipal court. Our Honor Roll The following are some of those who are new subscribers or have renewed their subscription to The Voice. How does your subscription stand? Mrs. A. Newton, Beatrice. Mrs. Lela Becks, Beatrice. Miss Jennie A. Morgan. Mrs. F. L. Troupe L. E. Ay Is worth Miss Jeannette Elliott Mrs. D. C. Helmsdoerfer Rev. W. I. Monroe \Tfie Second Million The ink is hardly dry on the widely-published announcement that “Victim X” is dead. Hardly dry, either, are the tears of his or her saddened family, for “Victim X” was the unknown man, woman or child who recently became a shocking national symbol of hid eous recklessness on our country’s streets and highways. • Bad enough Is the realization that in the 176 years of our na tion’s life a million sons had to die gallantly in battle to preserve the freedoms and privileges we so rightly cherish. Far worse and strictly dishonorable is the appall ing announcement that in only a third of that time we have per mitted another million citizens to be battered and crushed to death in traffic accidents, needlessly and many times criminally. But frightful to to the point of reeling unbelief is the cold knowledge that at the present rate we are speeding to a second million such victims within a mere 25 years. It must not happen! It will not happen if every citi zen, as a matter of sheer necessity for self-preservation, does his or her part promptly, consistently and courageously. Let us demand that our police departments en force the law sternly and im partially—and give them enough (Continued on Page 2) He was a member of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers local, No. 144, the Inter-, national Brotherhood of Firemen J and Oilers, Steelers club, No. 2038. at Bettendorf, la., and the Inter national Hod Carriers, Building and Common Labor Union of America, AFL. Survivors include four daugh ters, Floy, Vera, Janice, and Anna Cason, all of Lincoln, and a step daughter, Shirley Cason, also of Lincoln. W/' 0 v < or id a Bomb Victim Die ter Attending Funeral Hampton to Build $80,000 Dorm WASHINGTON — (ANP) — A long-term, low-interest loan of $775,000 for the construction of dormitory facilities at Hampton institute was recently approved i by the Housing and Home Finance' Agency, according to Administra-' tor Raymond M. Foley. The dormitory designed to ac commodate 251 students will be built at an estimated cost of $809,100. The college is located in an' area of national defense activities and is available to provide special training in many activites of the defense departiment. Foley pointed out that Hamp ton’s ROTC enrollment has almost doubled to 371 students during the last three years, with 400 expected to be under junior officer train ing during the coming school year. Some ROTC students are now reported as living four in a room in buildings built 70 years’ ago. | |More Than 600 Persons Attended I Mr. Harry T. Moore’s Funeral ♦ IFrozen Woman Walks Again , CHICAGO. (ANP) — For the first time since Last Feb. 8, when1 she was found in an alley literally frozen stiff, Mrs. Dorothy Mae Stevens, Chicago’s famous “frozen woman,’’ walked. She was fitted1 with artificial legs last week. At the time she was found, her body temperature had dropped 38 degrees below normal, and doc tors expressed amazement at her condition. The fact that Mrs.1 Stevens has recovered — minus both feet and nine fingers—made medical history. The artificial legs were pur chased by the Illinois State Re habilitation commission. Dr. Har old. Laufman of Michael Reese hospital, who has had charge of ^rs. Stevens, said artificial fin Igers will be fitted later. j SANFORD, Fla.—(ANP)— Mrs. Harriet Moore, 49, wife of Harry T. Moore, 46 Christmas night vic tim of an anti-Negro bombing, died in a hospital here, Thursday night, thus becoming the second fatality in the dynamite attack. Mrs. Moore left her hospital bed on New Year’s day to see the body of her husband. After viewing his body as it lay in state, Mrs. Moore, who had been improving, grew steadily worse. Her attending physician, Dr. George H. Starke said the death was caused by a blood clot. She had been hospitalized since Christ mas night when a bomb exploded under her bed after she and her husband, Florida NAACP leader, had gone to sleep. More than 600 persons attended the dead man’s funeral. Dr. Richard V. Moore, president of iBethune-Cookman college, was among the speakers. No new developments have been announced officially in the in vestigation of the incident al j though the federal bureau of in vestigation and local authorities Second Term for Liberia’s 18th j MONROVIA, LIBERIA—Another dramatic setting is in the mak ing for the inauguration January 7, 1952, of the chief magistrate of this republic of two and a half million soals located on the West Coast of Africa, when President Tubman, above, is scheduled to be sworn into office for his second terra. In the midst of his frst inaugural address, the Liberian magistrate stopped and knelt to make a fer* vent plea for Divine guidance. 1 Deeply religious, William V. S. Tubman is a product of the mis sion school and church. Son of the Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Tubman, he was bom in Harper. Cape Palmas, Maryland County, Liberia, November 29, 1895. Ed ucated at the Cape Palmas semi* nary, which is conducted under auspices of the Methodist church, he subsequently received private instruction to become a prominent member of the laity. He has exerted a profound influence in religious or evangelical work, re* | gardless of denomination or sect throughout hit eight years in ! office. | Since Liberia’s inception early f in the 19th century, the educa i tional and evangelical activities of the missionary have been closely related to the country’s I economic, social and cultural pro* i gress. Representatives of foreign missionary boards played con spicuous roles in making Centen | niai Sunday a memorable success ' in the country’s 100th anniver sary celebration July 24 to Aug ust 14, 1947. wwfe » Missionaries from the Method ist church mm the Protestant Episcopal ‘ ch la Afoerka have tiffin Mtj cmgest b Liberia. program of the Catholic church i« directed from Ireland. Other Foreign Missionary boards active in religious and educa tional work here are Negro Bap tist Convention, Unincorporated, Negro Baptist Convention, In corporated, Lutheran church, A. M. E. Church, A. M. E. Zion church, Lott Carey Convention, Seventh Day Adventist and As semblies of God. As head of the Liberian gov. ernment. Pres. Tubman directs activities of one of the original members of the United Nations. Its Free Port of Monrovia is the finest on the west African coast. Completed last year with the as sistance of a Lend-Lease Loan from the United States, the $22 million dollar port has already started to pay back through earn ings. The great rubber plantations, ; so valuable to the U. S. when 1 00% of the supply was cut off I during World War II by the Jap anese seizure of Southeast Asia, have become increasingly import ant. No less important is the opening up of Liberian mines which produce an average iron content of 68.9 per cent, the pur est iron ore being mined in the world today. In this small but active country, America has found a valuable contribution to its defense program. reportedly are studying the case. In the meantime, innumerable protests of the bombing are being directed to President Truman, iGov. Fuller Warren of Florida, I and to local authorities asking that something be done about the anti Negro violence in Florida. I Rewards totaling $19,325 have I been offered for the apprehension of the murderer or murderers of the Moores. They are headed by: | $6,000, state of Florida an nounced by Governor Warren; $5,000, NAACP announced by (Walter White, executive secretary. Several theories, however, have been introdnuced as motives for the killing. Klan Claims Not Guilty An unusual factor in this case is the stand of the usually vicious Ku Klue Klan. The Florida Klan burned a cross on New Year’s Eve and denounced persons who accused it of the bombings. The KKK denied all connection with Virginia School May Be Named After James Weldon Johnson RICHMOND — (ANP) — The name of James Weldon Johnson, educator, poet and diplomat, was proposed last week for the new Washington Park-Providence Park school in the North Side. The late soldier's name was recommended to the school board in a joint resolution from the Parent-Teacher associations of the two communities. While the board took the name under considera tion, it said other suggestions would be welcomed. Johnson, who was born in Jack time United States consul to Vene sonville, Fla., in 1871, was at one zuela and Nacaraugua. He was a teacher, a poet and a life-long student of literature and drama. For a number of years John son was secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Among his literary works one of the most popular is “God’s Trombones.'* He was also author of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,** the Negro na tional anthem. ,