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Editorially Speaking
Georgia s favorite race segrega
tionist, Governor Herman Tal
tnadge, attacked last week several
TV shows that featured Negro en
tertainers and mixed groups.
Talmadge singled out Arthur
Godfrey, Ken Murray and Clifton
Fadiman. A rebuttal by Godfrey
ended in pity for the governor.
Godfrey said, “I’m sorry for his
excellency, Gov. Talmadge, but as
long as I’m on this show the Mari
ners are going to stay with me.”
The Mariners are a mixed quar
tet of two whites and two Negroes.
Talmadge. race-haler extraordinary. last
week in his weekly newspaper, “The States
man.” devoted a three column front page
editorial to criticism of television shows that
feature Negroes and whites on an integrated
basis. He said the shows offend southern
white people "who have to sit in their living
rooms and take these insults or turn off the
get and miss good shows."
Walter Winchell, in his Sunday
Bight broadcast said:
“The recent article written by
Governor Talmadge of Georgia
proves him to be the bigot we
have always thought he was, and
was a demonstration of the most'
base ignorance that could be prop
erty of a public official of a state
of this nation.”
Another blast came at Talmadge
from Dick Campbell, vice-chair
man of the Council of Negro Per
formers. Campbell wrote Tal
madge:
“Your article is a sad commen
tary on our democracy for which
thousands of Negro soldiers are
Drake Star Gets
Nelson Trophy
BOSTON.—Johnny Bright. Drake
University’s 21-year-old Negro
halfback, Saturday night, ac
cepted the -Swede” Nelson sports
manship award and disclosed
plans to try out for the United
States Olympic team in the de
cathlon events.
Dedicated to a former Harvard
player and coach, the Nelson foot
ball trophy is awarded annually
by the Gridron club of Boston tc
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• dying in Korea and a ridicule ol
our American way of life in the
: eyes of the world.”
• • •
TV, WHICH HAS been short or
serious music, is to get a new
series starting in February titled
‘Meet the Masters.” Contralto
Marian Anderson has been se
lected to appear along with other
greats on this coast to coast tele
cast.
• • •
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE re
ports one lynching in 1951 (in
Florida, of course), one killing
(also in Florida) “technically” not
a lynching since the sheriff did it
all by himself; and three near
lynchings (in Va., Ala. and N.C.),
one of them white. The statistics
do not include the bombing to
death of the martyred Mr. Moore
of Mims.
* * * I
EVAN EDWARD WORTHING,!
Houston, Tex., millionaire, left a
$500,000 trust fund recently to
provide scholarships for deserv-j
ing graduates of Houston Negro
,high schools. He was a white man.
• * *
THE UNITED STATES SU
PREME COURT dismissed the
case against the University of
Tennessee last week when the
college assured the court that
Negroes would be admitted to the
graduate and law schools of the
University.
the player “who demonstrates a
high esteem for the football code
and exemplifies sportsmanship to'
a high degree.”
“Even to be considered for the
Nelson award would have made
me very happy,” Bright told the
Gridiron club diners. “But get
ting it is the biggest thrill of my
life”
The 213-pound Bright, from
Fort Wayne, Ind., is an all-around
track performer, although he has
not had much opportunity to com
pete in that branch of intercol
legiate sports.
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Delegates to Congress
The sixth and—not counting the
period which T. M. Marquette, the
first congressman from Nebraska,
served as delegate prior to the
state’s admission into the union—
last territorial delegate to Con
gress was Phineas W. Hitchcock.
Though Mr. Hitchcock, the father
of Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock,
is best known for his later career
as United States Senator, his cam
paign for the post of territorial
delegate in 1864 created a great
stir in Nebraska politics.
1 Phineas Hitchcock was born in
New Lebanon, New York, Nov. 30,
1831, and came of New England
stock. After a common school
education in New York, he at
tended Williams College, graduat
ing in 1855. After graduation he;
j worked as a newspaper reporter
in contral New York state and,
studied law' on the side. Shortly
after his admission to the bar,
however, he got the urge to go
West, and in 1857 he settled inj
Omaha, then only a frontier vil
lage, despite the fact that it was
the capital and most important
community in Nebraska territory.
The next year' he married Annie Monell.
the daughter of Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, also
a nattve New Yorker and a pioneer Ne-'
braskan. In Omaha, young Mr. Hitchcock
practiced law and engaged in business; for
a time he was one of the owners of the j
Omaha Republican, an important territorial
newspaper.
Like many another young man of ability
and ambition who came to Nebraska ter
ritory, Mr. Hitchcock soon was attracted
to politics. In 1860 he was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention which
nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presi-1
dency. The next year, President Lincoln!
appointed him marshal of Nebraska terri
tory. Later he was surveyor-general of the
territory.
* The most important aspect of his terri
torial political career, however, was his
campaign in 1864 for the position of dele
gate to Congress.
* * •
Hitchcock was nominated by
the new Union party, with which
the Republican party fused in
1864. His Democratic opponent
was Dr. George L. Miller, who
the next year was to found the
Omaha Herald, fore-runner, in
cidentally of the Omaha World
Herald. with which Phineas
Hitchcock’s son Gilbert was so
long identified. ^
j campaign was a bitter one.
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BY THOMAS GRIGSBY
PHOENIX. Ariz.— (ANP) —In
the face of opposition from three
veteran's organizations and an
aroused public. Greenwood Me
morial park cemetery changed its
policy to allow the burial of a,
Negro soldier killed in Korea and|
: thus brought to an end the five-,
■ week battle to obtain burial of
the soldier.
| The body of Pvt Thomas C.
Reed, 19, had been resting in a
mortuary since Nov. 28 awaiting
clearance on a burial site in the^
cemetery, owned by Arizona lodge
No. 2 of the Free and Accepted
Masons.
The three veteran organizations
which asked the cemetery to per-j
mit burial of any veteran without:
special notarized letters of request
were:
The Luke-Greenway Post of the
American Legion, Post 720 of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and the
Disabled American Veterans.
Until recently, Greenwood Me-j
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Dr. Miller was a vigorous oppo
nent of the Lincoln Administra
tion and its conduct of the Civil
War. Nebraska Territory was ’
overwhelmingly sympathetic to
the Union cause, and in some
communities Dr. Miller felt
obliged to have an armed guard.
Hitchcock won easily, with a ma
jority of 1,087 out of a total of
5,885 votes cast.
I .—
morial park had restricted burial
in the veterans section to white
persons. However, several months
ago it adopted a policy of con
sidering special letters of request
from the three veteran organiza
tions and had allowed four Negro
soldiers to be buried there.
Pvt. Reed’s father had objected
to having to ask the organizations
to intercede in behalf of his son
and send letters.
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