I
January 17, 1952
Paper Honors 10 Person uycee Select Publisher
CHICAGO. (ANP) — Six Ne
groes were among the ten per
sons and five institutions cited
last week for outstanding con
tributions to the Democratic way
of life and placed on the Chicago
Defender’s 1951 Honor Roll.
The colored persons are:
O. O. Morris, executive of the
Washington Park Y.M.C.A. and
the Wabash Avenue U.MC.A.; Pfc.
William Thompson, victim of the
Korean war; Orestes Minoso, Chi
cago White Sox baseball player,!
Monte Irvin, New York Giant
baseball player; the Rev. Roland
T. Heacock, minister of all-white
church; and Lt. George W. Lee,
Memphis, Tenn., civic leader.
The four white persons are Ru
dolph Bing, general manager of
the Metropolitan Opera; Gov. Paul
Devors, Massachusetts; Henry
Ford II, of Ford Motor company,
and Gen. M. Ridgway, U.S.A.
commander in the Pacific.
The five institutions are the
University of Illinois, Drake uni
versity, St. Francis hospital, Notre
Dame university, and National
Conference of Christians and Jew*
Morris was named for setting
the pace in Y work in 1951 and
for leadership in the building of
new $1,500,000 Washington Park
Y.M.C.A. in Chicago.
Pfc. Thompson, winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor,
for sacrificing his life in valor
above and beyond the call of duty
in the Korean war to uphold the
f ideals of Democracy.
Minoso for capturing the hearts
of the nation fans and being voted
American League “Rookie of the
Year” by the Sporting News.
Irvin for helping spark New
York Giants to National League j
pennant and seeking a seat in the
New Jersey legislature.
Rev. Heacock for his work in
promoting interracial understand
ing and good will.
And Lt. Lee for his fight against
illitecarcy and for rallying Ne
groes to register and vote in Meca
phis.
Also Bing for breaking down
color oar in employment in hiring
Miss Janet Collins as company’s
first permanent Negra ballerina.
Gov. Devers for hiring a colored
secretary, Mrs. Ruth Williams, and
pressing for better race relations.
Ford for using the vast Ford re
sources in the fight, against rac
ism and urging fair play in em
ployment.
Gen. Ridgway for his order
banning Jim Crow in the Pacific
command and speeding up inte
gration in units of the army.
The University of Illinois for
election of Miss Clarice Davis
homecoming “Queen” by the stu
dent body and for honoring a Ne
gro at its traditional “Dad’s Day”
celebration.
Drake university for withdraw
ing from the Missouri Valley con
ference because of treatment
given football star Johnny Bright,
who was injured in a game with
Oklahoma A. and M.
St Francis hospital for prac
ticing fair employment and inte
gration despite protests and walk
out
Notre Dame university for ex
panding the principle of Demo
cratic education and active par
ticipation in campus life of all
races and creeds.
And the National Conference
of Christians and Jews for its dis
tinguished work in promoting
brotherhood and denouncing in
tolerance.
Best Legislator
REP. CHARLES J. JENKINS
Chairman of the appropriations
committee of the Illinois House
of Representatives, the first Ne
gro to hold the post, recently
was given the “Best Legisla
tor Award” of the Independent
Voters League of Illindis. Gov
ernor Stevenson spoke at the
ceremony which was held at
Kimball Hall, Chicago. (ANP).
Dimes Fund Wages
Dual Polio Fight
Funds contributed to the 1952
'March of Dimes this month will
become double-barrelled barrages
'in the war on polio, Jim Acker
man, County Campaign Director,
declared today.
“Every dime and dollar finances
care of patients, research, epi
demic aid and education of much
needed, professional personnel,”
Mr. Ackerman said.
Fifty per cent of the funds re
main here to finance care of local
'polio patients needing such help
^or, in an emergency, are made
| available to the national epidemic
aid fund.
The other 50 per cent is sent
to National Headquarters, where
it is used for these programs:
Research—The most extensive
voluntary research program ever
levelled at a single disease. Aimed
at finding a means of preventing
or curing polio, March of Dimes
grants are supporting research in
the nation's leading universities
and laboratories.
Professional Education—W i t h
shortages resulting from increased
demands for professional service,
inroads made by military require
ments, more trained personnel are
needed today than ever before,
particularly in view of more wide
spread polio epidemics. March of
Dimes scholarships, fellowships
and short courses are training
more professionals to care for
polio victims and to man scien
tific laboratories.
Emergency Epidemic Aid Fund
—This is money made available
to any community which has ex
hausted its local March of Dimes
funds carrying for patients.
Mr. Ackerman emphasized that
“the number of new patients
every year, plus the tens of thou
sands of patients from past years
still needing help, have left the
March of Dimes in debt at the
end of each of the past four years.
Thus the 1052 appeal must sur
pass any of the past” The March
of Dimes will continue to the
end of the month.
**tong Young Men Of TheYear
Bishop Kelly
Makes Appeal
For College
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—“No project
in our Methodism has given
greater account of our investment
than our own Philander Smith
College at Little Rock, Arkansas,”
Bishop Edward W. Kelly, Sr.,
wrote in a letter to the ministers
of the churches in the St. Louis
area, of which he is the episcopal
head.
White and Negro Methodist
churches in several states includ
ing Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mis
souri, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennes
see, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota,
| Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Michigan and In
diana will take an offering for the
Little Rock institution on Race
Relations Sunday, February 10.
Bishop Kelly lauded the prog
ress that has been made at Phi
lander Smith College under the
administration of Dr. M. L. Harris,
who was one of the youngest col
lege presidents in the nation wher
the was elected in 1936.
| Twenty-three of the twenty-fivi
Negroes who received Master o:
Arts degrees from the University
of Arkansas last year were grad
uates of Philander Smith Collegu
which is reported to be the on!
> Negro church related college i
the North Central Association c
Colleges and Universities.
Philander Smith College aru
Dr. Harris are due much of th
credit tor the fact that the Uni
versity of Arkansas opened it:
doors to Negroes without a lega
battle, according to Bishop Kellj
'and others.
Jackie Signs for
$40,000 in 1952
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—(ANP)—
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodg
ers’ great second baarman, last
week became the highest paid
player in the history of the Brook
lyn club when he signed his 1952
contract for $40,000 and thus en
tered into the coveted circle of
the 10 highest salaried baseball
players in the major leagues.
At the time of the signing of
his new contract, Robinson, who
cracked the color line in modern
major league baseball, predicted
that he would not last as long as
Joe Dimaggio.
He attributed his inability to
remain around too much longer
to having played too many dif
ferent sports in college. He said
that his having played them so
hard had taken a lot out of him.
“Another thing is my weight,*
he said. “It's against my lasting
more than a few more years, un
less I can find some way to con
trol it.”
Robinson was an all-around
star at the University of Cali
fornia at Los Angeles some 12
years ago. He soon win be 35
years old. The Yankee slugger,
Dimaggio, was 37 when he re
tired recently.
Robinson’s new contract calls
for an increase of $5,000 over his
last year’s salary.
Among the other major league
players, the following probably
will earn more than Robinson in
1952.
Yogi Berra, New York Yankges,
Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox;
Bob Lemon and Bob Feller,
Cleveland Indians, aQ of flic
American.
Also Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh
Pirates, and Stan Musial, St. Duals
Cardinals all of the I Nations
leagues.
TULSA, Okla.— (ANP)—Because of his sensational
success in the publication of four magazines, John H. John
son, editor-publisher of Ebony, was named Saturday,
Jan. 12 as one of the 10 outstanding young men of the
United States in 1951 by the United States Junior Chamber
of Commerce.
Ihis is the first time the Junior Chamber has ever
named a Negro business man for this honor. Johnson along
i with nine other young men will be officially honored Sat
urday, Jan. 19 at the JoyceesT annual banquet in Dayton, O.
Lucas to Be Pres.|t
Board of Education 1
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.— *
J (ANP)—For the first time in the $
| history of the United States, a ■
'Negro, Dr. Stanley L. Lucas, has
been made head of an educational
system in a Metropolitan city.
Many persons are hailing Dr. g
Lucas’ elevation last week to the V
presidency of the Atlantic City c
Board of Education as a major ^
step toward full recognition of2
colored people in education. A for- C
raer vice president of the board, s
Dr. Lucas has been an active
member of the board since 1929. I*
i Born in Jamaica, B.W J., he *
was educated at Cambridge uni- 1
versity, England. He later attended ’
medical college at Queens univer- i
sity, Kingston, Ontario in Canada,
where he was graduated in 1906.
| He has done post-graduate work
in London, Paris and Berlin.
During the first world war, Dr.
Lucas served as medical officer in
'* health at Jamaica. He came to At
* lanttc City in 1920 and began bis
J medical practice. He has served as
1 assistant health officer of the city
for 23 years.
J Dr. Lucas is a member of the]
’ Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows and!
’ Reindeers. He also is a member of
] the Anglican church and is a Re
publican.
i Married to the former Miss ]
Ethel MecQey, a native of Quebec
City, Canada, Dr. Lucas has two
daughters, Mrs. Wilma Lucas NeJ- ‘
son, a teacher in the Atlantic City (
Junior high school, and Mrs. Enid
Scott. (
- f
Stamp Honors
Church Founder
WASHINGTON — (ANP) — A
commemorative stamp honoring1
Richard Allen, the founder of the
AME Church, the oldest Negro or
ganization in America, was issued
last week.
Designed by the General Con
ference Commission of the church,
the seal heralds the 1952 confer
ence to be held in Chicago, May
7-21.
Allen, a free man of color,
founded the AME Church in Phil
adelphia in 1783 after a group of
Negro worshipers had been ejected
from a white Methodist church
where they went to worship. The
original church was located at
Sixth and Lombard streets in
Philadelphia, the site of the pres
ent edifice, Mother Bethel AME
church.
In honoring Allen with the
commemorative seal, known as
the "Richard Allen Stamp,”
Bishop D. Ward Nichols, chairman
of the General Conference Com
mission, stated that the seals would
be distributed throughout the en
tire church connection.
The project will be handled
Jointly by the commission and the
office of Dr. A. S. Jackson, chair
man of the Finance Department of
the AME Church, Washington,
D. C.
To earn this award, Johnson
has progressed from the days in
1942 when he and his wife, Mrs.
Eunice Walker Johnson, a former
social worker, started out with
$500 to publish the Negro Digest
in a one-room office.
From his small staff, the John
son Publishing company has
grown to a large organization
which owns its own home in Chi
cago, has offices in New York and
Los Angeles, publishes lour maga
zines, Ebony, Negro Digest, Tan
Confessions and Jet, and hires a
staff of 75 employees.
Born in Arkansas City, Ark.,
Johnson at the age of 15 came to
Chicago with his mother, and en
rolled at DuSable high school.
There he first showed talent as a
journalist, becoming editor of the
school paper and editor of his
class year-book. He also was
president of his graduation class
and president of the student coun
cil.
While working at Supreme
-[Liberty Lite Insurance company
* | and serving as editor of the house
s I newspaper. Johnson got the idea
r ior Negro Digest For the c<*n- •
I pany journal he used to digest all
5 articles he read in magazines and
newspapers about Negroes.
1 Desiring to present the achieve
ment of Negroes in America,
Johnson began Ebony, his best
known magazine, in November,
[1945. It was an immediate suc
cess. It now boasts a circulation
of more than 500,000 copies.
Five years later, he began TSua
Confessions, already in the u
figures in circulation. One year
later, November, 1951, Johnson
introduced a new Negro weekly
news magazine, Jet.
His four magazines today have
a combined circulation of more
than a million, the greatest ever
achieved by a Negro publisher in
America. As a result, the UE
Junior Chamber of Commerce it
citing him "for developing pub*
Kcations that record and describe
the progress of the Negro in
America and serve as an inspira
tion to all Negroes.
Popuarity Contest
Closes on Sunday
Newman Methodist church is
sponsoring a Baby Popularity
contest which will close Sunday,
January 20th, at 4 p.m. at the
church. Babies participating are:
Eyvonne Hill, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lavanda Hill; Marsha
Lois Dungen, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Marais Dungen; Elizabeth
Jean King, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank King; Lynette Eliza
beth Gray, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Gray; Richard Collier,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Collier
and Kevin Lesha n Anderson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Anderson.
According to Rev. R. G. Nathan,
pastor of Newman, the cash
prizes to be awarded will be first,
$35.00; second, $15.00 and third,
$10.00.