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Approves Judici
CHICAGO (ANPJ—Sparked by
a layman, a minister and a bishop
and prodded by two days of
heated and explosive debate, dele
gates to the 34th Quadrennial
Conference of the African Meth
odist Episcopal church voted
Thursday to form a judicial coun
cil designed as a body of final ap
peal even from the powerful
Bishops Council.
This new body will consist of 17
members, either a layman or an
elder from each episcopal district.
It will act as the highest ruling
body in the church.
Other business activity during
the past week included the read- j
ing of reports of various general |
officers and the election of three
general officers.
Passage of the bill setting up
the Judicial Council, beginning
with this General Conference, cli
maxed a series of noisy demon
strations spreading over three
days under three different presid
ing bishops.
Activity for or against the pro
posal was so intense that it de
layed the elections of general of
ficers for more than 24 hours and
it pushed the election of bishops
back until possibly late Friday
night or Saturday. It also added
the election of Council members
to the program of the General
Conference.
Basically, the radical program
of setting up the Judicial Council
offers these changes in the present
organization of the AME Church.
CHANGES MADE BY NEW LAW
The Bishops Council has been
shorn of its judicial powers, and!
is replaced by the Judicial Coun
cil. The section of the church
Discipline giving these powers to
the Bishops Council will be de
leted from the Discipline, and a
new section, The Judicial Council,
will replace it.
Membership of the new body
will consist of nine elders and
eight laymen, each of whom serves
terms of eight years. At this gen
eral conference, laymen shall be
elected from odd numbered dis
tricts except the 13tli, and elders
will be elected from the even
numbered districts and the 13th.
Members from the 1st through
9th districts will serve eight years,
and those elected from other dis
tricts will serve four years. After
this members will be elected from
these districts in question at
every other quadrennium, thus
Our Honor Roll
Mrs. J. B. j3onds
Mrs. Roscoe S. Hill
M. E. Webb
Dr. F. H. Mason
Mrs. Thelma DeWittey, Seattle
Mrs. N. B. Scardrick
Mrs. Mary Dunn
Donald A. Brunson
Mrs. Lucy W. Minor
Mrs. Florence Gant, Higgins
ville, Mo.
Rev. F. F. Moton, Kansas City,
Mo.
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givi ^ial Council a stag
gerer jership.
Each district by majority vote
of its delegates at the Quadren
nial will nominate one member
! and one alternate (neither of
which has to be a delegate to the
General Conference). From these
nominees, the General Conference
will elect one from each district to
serve on the Judicial Council,
i The alternates will serve only in
case of death to the regular mem
ber.
The Judicial Council will elect
its own officers, a president, a
vice president, and a secretary.
It shall provide its own rules of
procedure.
No member of the Judicial
Council may hold a general office
or serve on any church board1
or any administrative or connec- j
tional office. Members must be
at least 35 years old and have
been a member of the church in
good standing for at least eight
years.
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Ruth Shinn Wins
Two Scholarships
Ruth Shinn, executive director
of the University of Nebraska
YWCA for the last four years, has
received two scholarships for ad
vanced study at Yale divinity
school in New
Haven, Conn.
Miss Shinn
has resigned
her University
position effec
tive at the close
of the present
school year. No
successor has
been chosen to
fill the campus •
YW position. Miss Shinn
In addition to Courtesy Lincoln
a full tuition Joun,al * Star
scholarship from Yale University,
Miss Shinn has been awarded an
$800 grant from the YWCA for
advanced study. The grants are
made to professional YW work
ers who intend to remain in the
field.
Miss Shinn plans to study for
two or three years in religion in
higher education, theology and
social ethics.
Kerr Anti-FEPC
WASHINGTON (ANP) — Sen.
Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, can
didate for the Democratic Presi
dential nomination, expressed
doubts to the wisdom of a com
pulsory fair employment prac
tices committee at the Federal
level. -
The Oklahoma senator said at a
news conference last week that, if
nominated, he would support such
a program if the party platform
endorsed it at the national con
vention in July.
When asked if this decision
applied to the entire civil rights
plank in the 1948 platform, Kerr
replied that he had always doubt
ed the wisdom of a federal FEPC.
He added that the purpose of fair
employment practices is basic un
der the Constitution and the con
cepts of freedom, liberty and jus
tice for all Americans.
He said he did not interpret the
, 1948 platform as calling for a
j compulsory FEPC. “I don’t find
that language in it,” he added.
Kerr’s position on FEPC was
made public to newsmen at the
formal opening of his campaign
headquarters at the Willard Hotel.
P. G. PORTER
P. G. Porter of the Nebraska
Conference of the AME Church
was named Saturday to the
newly created Judicial Council,
the highest ecclesiastical au
thority in the church. Mr. Por
ter, a former school teacher,
lives in Olathe, Kan.
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Nebraska Doctors
Get 50-Year Pins
•
Five Nebraska doctors were
singularly honored for their long
service in medicine by the Ne
braska State Medical Association
Wednesday evening (May 14) at
the Hotel Cornhusker in Lincoln
where the association held its
84th Annual Session.
The five physicians were Drs.
W. L. Albin, Lincoln; L. C. Bleick,
Omaha; Dr. D. T. Quigley, Omaha;
John Reid, Pilger; and Philip
Sher, Omaha.
They received pins commemo
rating 50 years of medical prac-j
tice in ceremonies held during
the annual banquet. Each of these
doctors has been in practice 50
years. This marked the third
year members of the medical as
sociation who have been in prac
tice a half century or more have
been honored in this manner.
Harold S. Morgan, M.D.,. Lin
coln, President of the state medi
cal association, said:
“We of the medical profession
are extremely proud to honor our
older members in this fashion. We
are grateful for the many fine
contributions they have made to
the art of healing. Without the
successful pioneering they and
their contemporaries have made
in medicine and surgery, much of
the progress we now know would
not have been accomplished.”
“In honoring these men, the
Nebraska State Medical Associa
tion is concurrently paying tribute
to the ‘Golden Age of Medicine’
which they helped to foster and
perpetuate,” Dr. Morgan declared.
Wash. U. Admits Negroes
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—(ANP)—
(Qualified Negro students now will
be admitted to all departments of
Washington university.
This announcement last week
was told to principals of local Ne
gro high schools here. The uni
versity previously admitted col
ored students only to the graduate
schools.
The decision to open all depart
ments to Negroes was approved
by the board of directors. The
various principals of schools af
fected by the decision were called
to a meeting and informed of the
change in policy.
ROBERT W. DOWLING
(Biographical Sketch)
DOWLING, ROBERT W.—Born,
New York City, 1895; residence,
990 Fifth Ave., New York City.
President, National Urban League,
1133 Broadway, New York City,
elected May 15, 1952.
President and director, City In
vesting Company, 25 Broad St.,
New York City.
President and director, R. E. Dow-,
ling Realty Corp.
President and director, Wall &
Hanover Street Realty Co.
President, American National
Theatre & Academy.
President, Citizens Budget Com
mission.
Vice president and director, Star
rett Corp.
Chairman of the board, Lopert
Films Distributing Corp.
Chairman, Citizens Zoning Com
mittee.
Trustee, Emigrant Industrial Sav
ings Bank.
Director, Fellows Medical Co.
Director, City Bank Farmers Trust
Co.
Director, R. H. Macy & Co.
Director, Station WOR
Director, Home Title Guaranty Co.
Director, Equitable Office Bldg.
Corp.
i Director, Hilton Hotels Corp.
Director, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria
| Director, New York Dock Co.
| Director, Starrett Bros. & Elkin
| Examinations
For Annapolis and
West Point Scheduled
Senator Hugh Butler (R.-Neb.)
has announced that the Civil
Service Commission will conduct
an examination on Monday, July
14 of this year, for any young
man interested in competing for
one of Senator Butelr’s appoint
ments to the United States Naval
or Military Academies at An
napolis and West Point for en
trance in 1953.
The Senator said he has the
right to make one appointment to
Annapolis and two to West Point
next year. These appointments, he
said, will be made on the basis
of the grades received in the ex
amination conducted by the Civil
Service Commission which will be
held at a number of points
throughout the state.
Young men interested should
write to Senator Hugh Butler,
Room 125, Senate Office Building,'
in Washington, D. C., expressing
their desire to take the examina
tion. They will then be furnished
with an authorization to compete,
and with the necessary informa
tion as to when and where to re
port for the exam. The Senator
asked that all applications be in
his office by May 30.
Appointments for 1953 are re
stricted to young men who will
have attained the age of seventeen
years, but not have reached the
age of twenty-two years on July
1, 1953.
Canada Lee Dies
Tribute was paid the flamboy
ant Canada Lee Sunday in a me
morial dedication over New York
station, WLIB, in cooperation with
the Negro Actor’s Guild. The late
actor, who succumbed to a heart
attack early May 9, was long con
sidered one of the greatest actors
.who has ever lived and who shall
[ever live.
Robert W. Dowling, president of
the City Investing Company, 25
Broad St., and one of the nation’s
top business and civic leaders,
became the sixth president of the
National Urban League, when the
board of trustees met Thursday,
May 15, at the Hotel Commodore.
Presiding at the unanimous elec
tion of Mr. Dowling, Lloyd K.
Garrison, retiring president, lauded
his successor’s acceptance of the
call to be of greater service to the
nation’s oldest interracial service
agency which has 60 affiliates in
30 states and is principally con
cerned with achieving equal eco
nomic opportunity for Negroes in
all fields of endeavor.
“Despite the fact that he is one
of America’s busiest men,” said
Mr. Garrison, “Mr. Dowling ac
cepted without hesitation our
nomination of him for the presi
dency, and I am sure that under
his influence, the Urban League
movement will reach even greater
heights in the future than was
envisioned for it by n\y illustrious
predecessors.”
First president was Edwin R. A.
Seligman, 1910-1913. Succeeding
presidents were Mrs. Ruth Stand
ish Baldwin, 1913-1915; L. Hol
lingsworth Wood, 1915-1941; Wil
liam H. Baldwin, 1941-1945; and
Lloyd K. Garrison, 1947-1952.
1 The National Urban League was
I organized In 1910 with Dr. George
E. Haynes as director and Eugene
Kinckle Jones, now retired, as
field secretary. From an organi
zation with two employees in New
York and a total budget of $2,500
in 1910, it has grown-today where
it has 60 affiliates in 30 states;
maintains national headquarters
at 1133 Broadway with Lester B.
Granger as executive director and
45 employees; and has a 1952
budget for headquarters operation
alone of $252,000. In addition to
national headquarters, it main
tains a Southern Field Division in
Atlanta, Ga., and a Western Field
Office in Pasadena, Calif.
Church ‘Women
Install Officers
The Lincoln Council of Church
Women met Tuesday at Westmin
ster Presbyterian Church. Meet
ing theme was “Peace Through
Fellowship.” Chairman was Mrs.
George E. Lewis.
Dr. C. Vin White spoke at the
morning session on “Spiritual Se
curity for Today’s Families.” Mrs.
John F. Wichelt presented the de
votionals.
“Fellowship” was the theme of
a panel discussion in the after
noon. Mrs. M. C. Leonard served
as moderator. Others participating
were Mrs. Rex Knowles, Mrs. Sara
Walker and Mrs. Fred Deweese.
Installation of new officers by
Mrs. P. C. Swift concluded the
program.
Notes of Interest
Mrs. Sallie Brown has an
nounced the marriage of her
daughter, Carrie to Hershel Vance
of Muskegon, Michigan. The
marriage took place in Muskegon
on Mother’s Day. The couple will
reside at R2 Twinn Lake, Muske
gon, Michigan.
Mrs. Raymond Gaines and her
daughter, Cheryl spent several
days visiting Mrs. Gaines’ sister
and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mn.
! Francis Thomas.