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. Negro History Week ^ Be Febraury 10 Thru 16 Violence Running Rampant In Cairo, III., Three Threatened BY CARTER JEWEL WASHINGTON — (ANP) — National Negro History week will be celebrated this year Feb. 10 16, it was disclosed here last week by the Association for the Study* of Negro Life and History. The theme for the observance will be “Great Teachers.” Among the teachers to be com memorated is Dr. Carter G. Wood son, who was born near New Can ton, Buckingham county, Va. He was teacher, historian and pioneer' in the field of education as well as founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and His tory and originator of History Week. Others are Joshua Simpson, scholar and exacting teacher, who was once described as one of the most capable teachers in the j United States by an official of the U.S. Office of Education; Lucy Laney, teacher-educator, who achieved fame in work among ° j children and youth at Augusta, Ga.; Nathaniel Dett, musical com poser, and Dr. Charles Drew,' eminent surgeon and trainer of physicians. Several other teachers of re nown and national fame will be commemorated during the week’s observance. Booker T. Washing-, ton, founder of Tuskegee Insti tute, and Dr. R. R. Moton, who became president of Tuskegee after Dr. Washington’s death in 1915, will be among the educators commemorated in some programs during the week. As in former years, individuals, families and organizations in pos session of data, letters, reports and biographies of historical in terest are urged to send this ma terial to the headquarters of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History at 1538 Ninth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. History clubs, civic groups, schools and churches interested in, securing material on suggestions and helps in celebrating Negro History Week should write to ''.he Association headquarters for more information. As a special release for Na tional Negro History Week Feb. 10-16, the California Labor school has issued a recording of Lang ston Hughes’ Freedom Train fea turing Buddy Green and the Cali fornia Labor School chorus. Free dom Train is a Negro’s commen tary on the Freedom Train which toured the country during 1947. — League Head Appoiuted to Youth Group DETROIT — (ANP) — John Dancy, executive director of the Detroit branch of the Urban league is one of the 30-member City Committee on Children and Youth named last week by Mayor Albert Cobo. The group is expected to help all agencies which concern them selves with youths and their prob lems and eliminate confusion aris ing from duplication. With an accent on providing educational and counselling facili ties, the committee will also en courage good citizenship. From the committee’s 30 mem bers, eight have been named as a Commission on Children and Youth. This smaller group of Nebraskans to Participate in Heart Drive OMAHA, Neb.—Nebraskans will be asked to participate in Na tional Heart Week, February 10-16, by contributing $60,000 in the 1952 Heart Fund Drive to raise funds needed in fighting heart disease and making it pos sible for ten million American sufferers from this disease to lead happy, almost normal lives. Dr. F. W. Niehaus of Omaha, president of the Nebraska Heart Association, said that medical re search, public education and community projects aimed at re habilitation of heart victims, was gaining in the national fight against heart disease, which is recognized as “the No. 1 Killer” of the nation. The 1952 Nebraska Heart Fund Drive as led by Clarence E. Wies ner, Omaha Manager of the Metro politan Life Insurance Company, as State Chairman. “We’re getting lots of help from local groups, such as the Amer ican Legion, its Auxiliary, “40 and 8” voitures, civic and fraternal groups, service clubs, and espe cially the Business and Profes j sional Women’s Clubs, who are 1 placing plastic heart coin con tainers in many Nebraska towns," Weisner said. “But in a few towns where no Heart Fund Drive is held, citizens may join in this great fight against rheumatic fever, high blood pres sure and coronary heart disease— three forms that account for 90 percent of heart afflictions — by simply mailing their gifts in care of “HEART” to their local post masters or directly to the NE BRASKA HEART ASSOCIA TION, 42nd and Dewey Avenue, Omaha 5, Neb. The annual meeting of the Ne braska Heart Association will be held on Saturday, February 23, at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lin coln. The meeting will be held prior to the annual meeting of the Nebraska section of the American i College of Physicians. Brother of Mrs. Mary Shelby Dies in Calif. Cecil T. Denton, «Vorld War I veteran of Santa Barbara, Calif., died Saturday of a heart attack. Mr. Denton had been confined in Veterans Hospital. He was a brother of Mr:. Mary Shelby who lives at 924 Plum street here in incoln. Mr. Den ton spent his youth in Lincoln : where he attended school and was an active member of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. church. Surviving are his wife, Lor raine, a daughter, Ann; two sons, James C. and Hugh, all of Santa Barbara; a sister, Mary Shelby of Lincoln and a brother, Harry Quincy, Sacremento. Calif. which Dancy is a member will act ns the ‘'steering” body for the parent unit. Women Plan Three Days Of Prayer The Lincoln Council of Church women will hold three home prayer meetings, preparatory to the World Day of Prayer Silence on Friday, Feb. 29. The meetings will be held on Feb. 9, 15, and 22 at 10 a.m. Women of all denominations may attend these informal neigh borhood meetings, choosing the one nearest home if desired. Mrs. Frank Whyman is prayer group chairman. Grace Lutheran Church, 22nd and Washington, will be host to World Prayer services on Feb. 29. Hostesses for the neighborhood prayer groups are: Mrs. O. A. PahlQuist, 1688 Perkins. Mrs. James S. Wallace. 2805 Garfield. Mrs. Orin Bate*. 3009 Holdrcgi-. Mrs. Rose Harrison, 3445 Orchard. Mrs. Harley Thrapp, 1311 No. 44th. Mrs. C. M. Duff. 1345 No. 37»h. Mrs. Donald Helmsdocrfer, 319 So. 27th. Mrs. N. A. Martin. 3024 S. Mrs. C. F. Stark. 135 No. 24th. Mrs. Fred Hallock, 1516 So. 19th. Mrs. D. B Marti. 3303 M. Mrs. Joe Riley Burns. 2702 No. 49th. Mrs. R. H. Powell. 526 No. 22nd. Mrs. Virgil C. Welch. 2313 No. 67th. Mrs. J. W. Staton, 457 No. 25th. Mrs. P. L. Quinn. 11128 No. 66th. Mrs. F. J. Lightle, IlOO So. 30th. Mrs. Ervin Clement. 2520 So. 53rd. Miss Grace Lenfest (evening group) 4919 Adams. Mrs. Harold C. Sandal], 415 No. 27th. Mrs. Arthur W. Taylor. 1710 B. I Primary Election Registration Will Close on April 1 Registration for the April county, state and presidential pri mary election loses March 21. The office of the election com missioner has again pointed ou that only those who have not reg istered since 1947 or who haw j moved or changed their nami since their last registration nee( | to register now. If you voted a the last general city election an< have not moved changed you; name since then, you can voti this year without additional reg istering. The deadline for filing is Feb 21. Incumbents seeking electior HHnnH AT URBAN LEAGUE 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION—Rev. Joseph W. Anderson. left, speaker at the Urban League Wednesday night, chats with Msgr. Nicholas A. Wegner, head! oI Boys Town. The Lincoln Urban League, at a banquet Wednesday January 30th celebrated its twentieth year of interracial progress, and in augurated its 1952 membership | drive. i Guest speaker at the anniver : sary dinner was the Rev. Joseph W. Anderson, who was introduced i by Msgr. Micholas H. Wegner I head of Boys Town. Nine members were elected to the Urban League board at the meeting: Mrs. M. C. Leonard, Rev. | Melvin L. Shakespeare, Henry Courtesy Lincoln Star McWilliams, Mrs. J. H. Dean, Ar thur Patrick, James Wadkins, L. Boomer, Herbert Burton and Mrs. Helen Randol. An election of officers will be held at next month’s meeting. Present officers are Robert Ma lone, president; Mrs. Roberta Mol | den, first vice president; Mrs. Helen Foe, second vice president; John Irving, secretary; Lynnwood Parker, executive secretary; and Dr. M. F. Arnholt, treasurer. CAIRO, 111.— (ANP)—Dynamite threatened the prop erty of two prominent Negroes, and a shot was fired into the home of another in a current series of violence over the admittance of Negroes to previously all-white schools in this southern Illinois town. Earlier in the week three fiery crosses were burned in Negro Districts in and around Cairo on the eve of the scheduled admission of Negroes to the schools. ‘Brotherhood of , Man" Theme of "52 \ AME General Meet; CHICAGO (ANP) — “World j Brotherhood of Man,” will be the: theme of the 1952 general confer-!, ence of the AME church when it , meets here May 7-21. ji Representatives and observers of the UN have been invited to1 attend the 34th Quadrennium of the church, Bishop D. Ward Nichols, chairman of the General Conference Commission, said last week. More than 25,000 persons are expected to atten dthe 15-day ses-! sions to be held in the Coliseum,' famed Chicago sports arena. A forerunner of the conference will be the annual meeting of the Bishops Council in Charleston, S. C., Feb 20-22. Frank Madison Reid, presiding bishop of the sev enth episcopal district, is host I to the Bishops Council. Among the top business on the agenda for this year’s conference is the election to fill three Epis copal vacancies. There also ar« some 14 general offices to tx filled by election or re-election. Vacancies are filled by ballot; _ of the 1.050 officially accreditee ^ delegates. A 68-member Episco pal Committee also has been se ; lected as a “super jurisdictional’ » body to appoint and assign bishop; l to districts. The body will heai t charges and complaints through i its Judiciary Committee. All pro ceedings are governed by the i AME Book of Discipline adopted ■.in 1948. to another office must file by i Feb. 11. The latest victims in front of i tire shop operated by Dyson; a x>mb blasted an unoccupied room n the home of Dr. Bass, and a ;hot was fired intc the home of Dr. Wallace. No one was injured n either case. Local, state and federal au thorities are investigating the cur rent wave of racial violence to flood this small town. In commenting on the bomb ing, Dr. Bass said in part: “The bombers may have been a small minority group of hood lums that have become incensed because of the school fight and who intende .o terrorize and may be to kill.” He added .hat he had not taken part in the school problem. In addition to having a shot fired into his home, Dr. Wallace has received two threats. One was in the form of a letter di rected to him and his family; the other was an indirect threat re ceived through a telephone call to Dr. W. A. Fingal, president of the Cairo NAACb. The letters warned him and his family to leave Cairo or suffer the conse , quences. e\ Dr. Wallace, youthful native of j Beaumont, Texas, came to Cairo s in 1945. He said that he had no j intention of leaving the city be cause of the threats. .j A graduate of Wiley college • and Meharry Dental college, Dr. . Wallace was named citizen of the . year in 1950 by the local Sport man’s club. He is a state organ izer and deputy for the Elks, state treasurer of the Illinois Council of Deliberation, r. past potentate (of the Shriners, past channcelior 'commander of the K.P. He also is a captain in the dental corp, Army reserve, and is listed in Who’s Who. I Dr. Wallace married the former Miss .Vnnetta Lucas, daughter of | the late Dr. A. L. Lucas and Mrs. Ella Lucas. The couple has two children, Maudelia, six, and (James III, 4. . When colored pupils first ap ! peared at the schools, they were :told to return to their schools un Itil their papers were processed. The first transfers were made twro ldays later. At the junior high school, where -one colored pupil was admitted, (25 per cent absenteeism was re (corded by afternoon. Two others entered a grade school without incident. Cairo, with a population of 12, 300, is the southernmost city of Illinois, at the Kentucky-Missouri border. In contrasts to the violence dis played in Cairo was the attitude showed toward admitting Negroes to white schools in Alton, 111., an other small town. For the first time in 50 years, Negroes joined white pupils in j grade schools and junior high schools without incident. Racial segregation is forbidden in Illinois school system through a law authorizating the witti holding of state grants violating schools. Schools could not MB , without state help.