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July 10, 1952
Rumor of Negro Tenants
Causes Riot in Chicago
CHICAGO, 111.—Fires were set
and furniture smashed at a Chi
cago apartment building Tuesday
night where some 3,000 persons
gathered when rumors circulated
that Negroes were moving in.
Forty police squads were called i
to disperse the crowd. People ^
living in the neighborhood re
ported that an apartment in the
building was to be vacated and
Negroes were seen apparently in
specting the premises.
The building (at 4544 S. Union
Ave.) is about four blocks from
the Chicago Convention Hall and1
Interna tional Amphitheatre—|
where the National Republican
Convention will be held next
week.
Two small fires were started on
a rear porch and front windows it.
an occupied first floor apartment
were broken by the crowd. The
fires were quickly extinguished
and caused little damage.
The crowd gathered when a
sofa and chair were placed in
front of the building in the all
white neighborhood. The sofa and
chair were splintered.
Deputy Police Commissioner
Philip Breitzke said that Mrs.
Bertha Verran, who lives in a sec
ond floor apartment, told him that
she received notice last Friday
that she was to be evicted.
Other residents of the area told
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‘Nebr. Greatest
Outdoor Event’
Aug. 31-Sept. 5
Lincoln (Special) — When the
inquiring reporter asked him why
he calls the annual Nebraska State
Fair “Nebraska’s Greatest Outdoor
Event,” Ed Schultz, Secretary of
the fair board, had a ready
answer.
He said, “Simply because it is
Nebraska’s best-attended single
: event.”
And he’s right, too, because
figures show that 75,000 has been
the usual attendance figure for
each of the first two days of the
Fair. And, for the last two years,
total State Fair attendance has
reached nearly 300,000.
As Schultz is quick to point out,
there are many new attractions
and improvements scheduled for
the 1952 Fair.
Probably the biggest event
scheduled in conjunction with this
fall's mammoth exposition will be
the National Abredeen - Angus
|show and sale, which will take
place in the fair grounds Coliseum
,on Wednesday and Thursday of
Fair Week.
There are several improvements
in the physical plant which will
! mean new convenience for State
Fair patrons. Included in the
| $115,000 building project are new
Musical Program to Be Presented Sunday, July 13th
E—__*
“The Drama Lyric Trio” will present a mu
sical program, Sunday evening July 13th at 8
p.m. on the lawn of Quinn Chapel AJtf.E.
church.
These three young ladies, Collen St Clair,
i*t Soprano, Clara Scott, 2nd Soprano, Evelyn
] Parker, alto with their accompanist, Doris Dar
ling and a cast of twenty-five persons. They
will feature such numbers as “Deep River,” “Ave
Maria,” “When Children Pray,” and “The Lord
is My Light.”
The group is being sponsored by the Trustee
Board of Quinn Chapel.
800 Attend Operation Civil
Rights Meeting In Chicago
Archibald Cafrey
To Address GOPs
CHICAGO — The Rev. Archi
bald J. Carey, member of the Chi
cago City Council and pastor of
the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. church
here, was among the guest speak
ers who addressed the Tuesday
afternoon session of the Repub
lican National Convention.
Rev. Carey is considered one of
the country’s most dynamic
speakers and progressive leaders.
and wider roads inside the
grounds, several modern conces
sion buildings, additional curbing,
guttering and drainage facilities,
a new hay and feed building and
more public rest rooms.
“Every cent paid out for these
improvements,” said Schultz,
“came from State Fair funds —
not one cent came from tax
funds.”
An entertainment note that will
be great news to thousands of Ne
braskans is the announcement that
the musical review in front of the
grandstand will be presented all
six nights of the Fair, instead of
just the first five as has been the
practice. Fireworks will follow the
performance each night.
Dates of the 1952 Nebraska
State Fair in Lincoln are Augus
31 through September 5.
Confirm 9-Point Plan
For Political Parties
Owens Voted <
World’s Greatest J
Olympic Star «
LOS ANGELES — (ANP) — 1
Sports writers from all over the ^
nation last week voted Jesse ]
Owens by far the greatest Olym
pics track star of all time. ]
In an Associated Press poll, theH
scribes selected him as the top11
man of all time in the 100 meter i
asd 200 meter dashes, the broad <
jump, and a member of a 400
meter all time relay squad. \
Owens won four gold medals in1:
the 1‘36 Olympics by taking the1!
two dashes, the broad jump and
running anchor on the U.S. 400-1
meter relay squad.
Also selected to the all-time
squad were Mai Whitfield in the
800 meter run and Cornelius John
son in the high jump. Whitefield
was an extremely narrow choice
over John Woodruff of the 1936'
Olympic squad.
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ANP Director
Elected to
Red Cross Board
CLEVELAND — (ANP) —
Claude A. Barnett, director of the
Associated Negro Press, recently
was elected a member-at-large of
the board of governors of the
American Red Cross at the 27th
annual meeting of that organiza
tion here.
The election of Barnett brings
to three the number of Negroes
serving in that capacity with the
Red Cross. The other two are Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche, UN trusteeship |
director, and Dr. F. D. Patterson, |
president of Tuskegee Institute, j
Barnett also is a member of the j
board of directors of directors of j
Supreme Liberty Lift Insurance |
co., the Liberia co., the Phelps
Stokes Fund and a member of |
President Truman’s Committee for
the Physically Handdicapped. i
Soloist Studies
At Columbia U
TULSA, Okla. (ANP)-Mrs.
Cleo Ross Meeker, dramatic so
prano, left Tulsa last week to at-'
tend summer school at Columbia
university, New York City.
Mrs. Meeker who is soloist for,
the Tulsa Civic Male chorus, di
rector of Dunbar Teachers chorus -
and director of Vernon A.M.E.
church’s senior choir is a teacher’
at Dunbar elementary school.
Appointed Postal Supt.
TUCKAHOE, N. Y. (ANP)—
Fred Stevens recently was ap
pointed the first Negro superin
tendent of the Tuckahoo Branch
of the Yonkers Post Office. Ste-j
vens’ appointment climaxed some
47 years of local postal service. I
The Tuckahoo Branch serves
about 20,0000 persons in the
northeast part of Yonkers-Crost-1
wood, Colonial and Mohegan
Heights and Tuckahoo and East
chester. Branch personnel includes
35 carriers and clerks. Last year,1
its colume of business totaled
$180,000. !■
CHICAGO (ANP)—More than
800 persons paid $10 a plate “Op
eration Civil Rights” dinner and
unanimously approved a 9-point
civil rights plank recommended
to the platform committees of the
Republican and Democratic
parties.
Sponsored by the Chicago
Branch NAACP with the coopera
tion of 19 organizations, the din
ner was held in the Grand Ball
room of the Hotel Sherman in
downtown Chicago.
Walter White, executive secre
tary of the NAACP, and a repre
sentative from each of the two
major political parties were the
featured speakers. A 10-minute
open question period followed the
speeches.
Elmer Henderson, head o( the
American Council of Human
Rights, a group financed by the
six major fraternities and sorori
jties, served as moderator. Speak
ers were Albert B. Herman, exec
utive director, National Republi
can committee, for the GOP, and
Judge John Gutknecht, substitut
ing for Gov. G. Mennon Williams
of Michigan, for the Democrats.
In his address, White called for
both parties to adopt civil rights
planks with the following nine
points:
1. Revise senate rule 22 in order
to bring an end to the filibuster.
I Give the majority of senators
present and voting the right to end
cloture.
2. Have a Federal FEPC (fair
I employment practices) law with
I teeth, setting up a commission able
to act.
3. End segregation based on race
and color on: interstate transpor
tation, in the armed forces, and
in all federal government activi
ties, including the Canal Zone.
4. Pass a federal anti-lynching
law. ,
5. End poll tax and discrimina
tory registration and election laws.
6. Strengthen the civil rights
division of the department of jus
tice, making it a full department
headed by an assistant attorney
general.
7. Form a permanent U.S. Corn
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More Money for
Negro Colleges
BATON ROUGE, La.—(ANP)
—The largest money bill in this
state’s history was passed last
week by the legislature. Southern
university and Grambling college
were allocated J462,000 and $400,
000 erspectively in biennial in
creases.
Previous administrations had
refused to appropriate adequate
sums for -he maintenance of the
institutions.
Southern university’s high
school program has been woe
fully affected because there is not
sufficient accommodation for
students who have applied for
admission. The last session of
the legislature dominated by the
Long regime, sharply curtailed
the apprdpriation for Southern
university, but increased the
expenditures for the smaller
white institutions.
