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
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—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
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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.