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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.
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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
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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.
