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Women Outline Plans to End Segergation in Church Urban League To Hold 20th Membership Dinner Meeting BUCK HILL FALLS, Pa. (ANP) — Representatives of more than 1,500,000 Methodist Church women last week adopted a reso lution to end segregation within the church, and condemned the killing of Harrjr Moore in Florida. At the final session of its nine day meeting, the Woman’s Di vision Service voted for a detailed and explicit “charter of racial pol- 1 icies,” designed to wipe out seg regation and discrimination in the Methodist Church. The group also pledged itself to “build in every area it may touch a fellowship and social or der without racial barriers.” Church spokesmen said the move might eventually break down the church’s Central Juris diction which includes most of the Negro Methodists. All other areas of the church are divided on a geographical basis. The following specific policies were included in the charter: 1. Selection of staff personnel; would be made solely on the basis of qualifications without regard; to race. 2. Racial ornational background would not be considered in the employment of missionaries, dea-. conesses and other workers. 3. Projects and institutions sup ported by the division would be open to all persons without dis crimination along racial lines. 4. Projects and Institutions sup . ported by the divisions would be open to all person? without dis crimination along racial lines. 5. All meetings would be held in localities where racial groups could have access to all facilities without discrimination in any form. 6. Where law prohibition or | custom prevented the immediate achievement of those objectives,' workers and local groups would be charged with the responsibility of “creating a public opinion” that could result in changing such laws and customs. The church women called upon President Truman, the attorney general and the governor of Flor-| ida to investigate the Christmas At Christ Temple iftrrr mw im— iw— — if mw ■,. —Courtesy Ijncoin Journal. MRS. HELEN WOOD Mrs. Helen Wood, converted Former communtist organizer, is currently leading evangelistic meetings at the Christ Temple Mission at 2149 U Street, begin ning at 7:30 o’clock each evening until February 1, 1952. Rev. Trago McWilliams, is pastor of Christ ^ Temple. iGoal of Nebraska iHeart Fund Set At $8,000,000 OMAHA, Neb.—Dr. Fred Nie haus of Omaha, president of the Nebraska Heart Association, an nounced today that the goal of the , 1952 Heart Fund nationally will be Eight Million dollars, while Ne braskans will be asked to raise jonly $60,000 of that amount “Heart disease is the greatest killer in America,” said Dr. Nie haus. “Hardly a family in Amer ica is not touched by it There :are 23 distinct types. “Thanks to the research pro gram being carried on by the [American Heart Association, we night killing of Moore, executive1 secretary of the Florida NAACP/ ■at his home in Mims, Fla. Gov. Adlai Stevenson to Be Key Speaker at U.L. Dinner, Jan. 21, Honoring Dwight R. G. Palmer NEW YORK, N. Y.—Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois will be the featured speaker at a dis cussion of the four-way responsi bility of government, labor, man agement and civic interest in the promotion of better race relations and equal economic opportunity. The discussion will take place at the second annual dinner to be held under the joint auspices of fee National Urban League and fee Urban League of Greater New York on January 21st at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Dwight R. G. Palmer, indus trialist and philanthropist, and chairman of the board, General —Mliimji—i i a - Cable Corporation, New York, will be honored as the citizen who symbolizes the four areas of re sponsibility. Last year he re ceived the “Two Friends Award” of the National Urban League, and' has been honored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Hebrew Union College forj his outstanding work in the field of interracial harmony and open ing up new and equal employ ment opportunities for Negroes. He served as a member of the President’s Committee on Equal ity of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces. Other speakers representing areas of American community life are: Jacob S. Potofsky, national^ president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (CIO); and Professor Ira DeA. Reid, head of the Department of Sociology at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. The dinner announcement was made jointly today by Lloyd K. Garrison, National Urban League president, and James E. Felt, president of the Urban League of Greater New York. Left to right: Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, Prof. Ira DeA. Reid, Dwight R. G. Palmer and Jacob S. Potofsky. Ex-Lincolnite |To Specialize In Real Estate Law LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The lo cal community will have its first specialist in real estate law as soon as the new “shingle” of neophyte lawyer David Lee is hung out in conjunction with his brother’s real estate offices at I 3026 Hall dale. Young Lee, brother of Robert, W. Lee local realtor, passed the most recent bar examination, as announced by the State Bar Ass’n. this week. A hardworking young man, he has been holding down two jobs, one with the Bureau of Resources and Collections and with the Post Office at night. World War II veteran of the European theater, young Lee has been variously educated. He took his legal training at Southwestern university, studying previously at USC, Rutgers, and Howard uni versities. The family is native of Lincoln, Neb., with two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Brown and Mrs. Dorothy White, living in San Francisco. Lee will engage in general practice in offices adjacent to hi) \ brother’s, but win specialize ii real estate legal matters. He re sides at llOflWs W. 52nd si. are beginning to find some of the answers to what causes it and how it can be checked. “In Nebraska at the local level we have heart research programs going on daily at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and at Creighton University School of Medicine. Two weeks ago the borrd of Ne braska Heart Association voted $5,000 to be shared equally by the t*o fine schools in heart re search. We also provided $1,000 in December for bringing an emi nent heart specialist from Phila delphia to Nebraska, to participate in six clinics for doctors, sponsored (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Guest Speaker to Be Father Joseph Warren Anderson The Lincoln Urban League will launch its 1952 mem bership drive at its 20th annual membership dinner meet ing on January 30th, at the Urban League building, 2030 T Street. Father Joseph Warren Anderson, Dean of Grade Father Anderson I —Courtesy t,ineo*n Star The Rev. Joseph Warren An derson a 1940 graduate of the L Bdys Town high school, was the i fifth Boys Tow» citizen to become 1 a priest. S Band Leader Establishes \Student Fund PHOENIX, Ariz. — The estab lishment of the Louis Jordan Stu jdent Loan Fund available to high 'school graduates of Arizona, re-^ gardless of sex, race, religion or national origin, was announced re cently by the Phoenix Urban I League. The noted band leader,1 la supporter of the League’s pro-1 'gram, and who maintains a resi dence in Phoenix during the win ter, started the fund to be admin-j istered by the League with his initial gift of $500. The League is one of fifty-eight( branches of the National Urban^ League, the nations’ only interra-(j cial voluntary service agency de- I signed primarily to promote equal economic opportunity. “The purpose of the fund is to offer assistance, through the me-( dium of higher education, to young people to enable them to make a greater contribution to] their communities, and to demon-: strate how effective education is. in promoting the ideals of Ameri-. canism, teamwork and inter-group] fellowship,” Jordan said. “Jordan has shown continuous! .interest in youth opportunity pro grams and has assumed responsi bility for arranging a March con cert .from which the League will receive the proceeds,” said Alton W. Thomas, the League’s executive secretary. In addition, the band leader will solicit cash contribu tions from other musicians. The League’s Committee on Education, chaired by Mrs. George Rogers, deans of girls at Carver High School, will supervise the awarding of loans to students seeking further trafaring allied with sound vocational guidance. Applicants will be required to show ability, need and promise, and must be willing to participate in a counselling and budgeting School Section of Boys Town wiU be guest speaker. He was the first Negro Priest ordained in the Diocese of Omaha. He assists with Sunday Masses at the following parishes: St. Margaret Mary’s, Holy Angels, and Blessed Sacra ment. He is chaplain at County old folks home at Clearview, Ne braska. Following are a few facts about the Lincoln Urban League whose 1952 Campaign Slogan is : BET TER JOBS, BETTER HOMES, BETTER LIVES . . . BETTER JOIN! THE URBAN LEAGUE OF LINCOLN is “An Interracial Serv ice Agency, using the Methods of social work to improve and adjust the living and working conditions of Negroes and other minorities.” \A Reputation Founded on Service ■ ' In 1911 a group of New Yorkers ; —Negro and white—organized the . Urban League movement to pro mote a better life in the city for I the expanding Negro population. The League has fought against un employment and helped thousands of unskilled Negroes to equip themselves with a trade; helped thousands of skilled Negroes to find johs. The Urban League everywhere has come to mean op portunity and interracial coopera tion. Founded in 1931, the Lincoln Urban League is dedicated to the removal of barriers that keep Ne groes and other minorities from making their full contribution to Lincoln ,and has continued its at tack both on job placement and living conditions. Something You Can Do . . . Membership in the Lincoln Urban League is open to anyone who, in principle, supports its pro gram. Your membership contri bution of one dollar helps continue the work described in the forego ing paragraphs. Walter Young, 56, War Veteran, Dies Walter Young, 56, of 417 No. 22nd, died Wednesday. He had been employed at the Country club. Bom at Plattsburg, Mo., he lived there until entering the army during World war I. He served in France two years. After being discharged, he managed a business in St. Joseph, Mo, for ten years, then came to Lincoln. Surviving is his wife, Doris. Funeral services were held Sat urday at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Msgr. C. J. Riordan officiating. Rosary was Friday at Umberger’s. Burial was in Soldiers* Circle at Wyuka with taps by American Legion Post 3. program with professional coun selors provided by the committee. Applicants must also submit a realistic plan for successfully completing the educational pro gram with financial assistance from this fund.
