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Negro Women Active at
Democratic Convention
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Demo
cratic women delegates, including
a few Negro women, attending the
National convention this year out
numbered the Democratic wom
en's representation at the 1948
convention. They also outnum
bered the number of Republican
Women attending their recent
convention in Chicago.
Among Democratic Negro
women delegates and alternates
elected to the convention are Al
mena Lomax of Los Angeles,
Georgia Jones Ellis of Chicago,
Lillian Hatcher of Detroit, Mrs.
Anna Brown of Kansas City, Mo.,
Mrs. Ardania Morgan and Jean
Blythe of St. Louis, Mrs. Mayme
Elliott Bowling of Emporia, Kan.,
and Mrs. Susia Monroe of Phila
delphia.
In addition to the women dele
gates, a number of nationally
known women served as speak
ers on the important issues of the
1952 campaign. Among these out
standing women was Mrs. Edith1
S. Sampson, who served as alter- ]
nate to the fifth United Nations ]
General Assembly. i
. A report of the two-day session1
■ of Democratic women, held in the
Grand Ballroom of the Conrad
! Hilton Hotel on July 22 and 23,
will be presented as “The Ani
mated Democratic Digest” a living
issue of the “Democratic Digest,”
official publication of the Wom
I'en’s Division of the Democratic
National Committee.
The special convention issue of
the “Democratic Digest” will be
edited by Dorothy Girton, assisted
by Mrs. Venice Spraggs, chief of
the Washington Bureau of the
^Chicago Defender; along with
.Miss Elsie Jensen and Mrs. Jane
'Schmidt, Democratic couriers on
.the staff of the Women’s Division.
Mrs. India Edwards, vice chair
man of the Democratic National
Committee and Director of its
Women’s Division declared:
“This increased representation
of Democratic women at the Con
vention this year clearly demon
strates the important contribu
tions that women are making to
our party organization and it em
phasizes the fact that Democratic
leadership tangibly expressed
recognition of women’s contribu
tions to our political life.”
Powell Sounds Off on Negro Vote
NEW YORK (ANP) — Con-|
gressman Adam Clayton Powell '
sounded off last week that the ]
Democratic party “makes a serious ;
mistake when it thinks that they !
Can win without the Negro vote”
and the Negro “will have to vote
Democratic.”
The Representative said nothing
less than the civil rights plank in
the 1948 Democratic platform
would be acceptable to “his
people.”
“I will personally lead a move
ment to keep Negroes away from
the polls in November” Powell
said. “The Democratic party can
not win without the Negro vote.
We do not have to vote Republi
can. We just won’t vote at all.”
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it climbed last year and should be
back to or above normal this year,
Kelly added.
In 1948, Louisville experienced
an incident which threatened to
throw the city into an uproar. At
that time, McCandless was direc
tor of safety for the city.
The incident occurred one
morning when residents awoke to
find they were invited to a mixed
picnic in a white park, one of
seven segregated for white, Mc
Candless said. Five parks were
reserved for Negroes.
At that time, the park board
held fast to segregation and the
rule had been upheld by a lower
court
Added to the unfavorable re
action of local residents was news
McCandless received from the FBI
that professional agitators were
filtering into Louisville to pro- j
The congressman’s statement
was made in reference to comment
from Chicago by Sen. John J.
Sparkman of Alabama, in which
he said he was working out a
“compromise civil rights plank,
which would be acceptable to the
south as well as the north.”
Meanwhile, Congressman
Powell, who is a delegate at large
to the Democratic convention,
faces a fight within his own party
in Harlem for his own reelection.
Hubert Bruce, former Tam
many Hall leader, in fact the first
Negro Democratic leader in New
York, has been known to be anxi
ously eyeing Powell’s seat and
is merely waiting an opportunity
to unseat the Baptist minister.
voke incidents that might end in
a riot.
Realizing that he was faced with
an incendiary situation and that
police were untrained to meet it,
McCandless, on the advise of Loh
man, called in civic leaders and
radio and newspapermen.
He told them he would take a
group of whites to a colored park,
technically arrest them, and pa
role them immediately for a test
court case. He also would take
Negroes to a white park and fol
low the same course of action.
The newspaper editorials and
radio comments which followed
helped dispel the tensions and
sent the agitators scurrying
1 away.
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Nebraska’s Counties
The name of Daniel Boone ap
i pears in many places on the map
of the West. In Nebraska, Boone
County commorates the noted
frontiersman. Likewise, Albion,
the county seat, bears a name
that is familiar on the map of
America and which emphasizes
the English origins of the United
States. Boone County’s Albion
was named after Albion, Michi
gan, which in turn took its name
from Albian, Maine. The Maine
town, though, traces its name di
directly to the poetical name for
England.
Settlement in Boone County
dates from April, 1871, when a
company of men organized in
Columbus camped on the site of
the present town of Albion. The
legislature already had defined
the boundaries of Boone County,
and these early settlers wasted
little time in transforming the
paper county into a functioning
political subdivision of the state.
On July 28, 1871, John Ham
mond, Harvey Maricl eand S. P.
Bollman were sworn in as county
commissioners by Judge I. N. Tay
lor of Platte County. At an early
meeting, the commissioners desig
nated the first Tuesday in Janu
ary, 1872, as the date of the coun
ty’s first election.
The election came off as sched
uled and county government got
going under a regularly-elected
set of officers. The location of the
county seat, however, remained
unsettled. Both Boone and Albion
—the only two post offices in the
county—coveted the honor, and
the year 1872 saw considerable
maneuvering and in-fighting.
Loran Clark, who owned the
Albion townsite, was hesitant to
go to the expense of having the
town platted unless he could be
sure of the county seat. Albion
was the choice of the voters at a!
special election held October 8,1
1872, but it required some fast
work on the part of Mr. Clark to
prevent the people of Boone from1
re-naming their town “Albion”
and taking over as the county seat.
Boone County’s formative years
were marked by drouth, depres
sion and grasshopper infestations.
Consequently, the early develop
ment of the county was slow. In
the middle seventies, though,
roads were graded and a few
bridges were built.
One of the great days in the
county’s early history was June
29, 1880, when the first engine
of the newly-built Omaha, Nio
brara and Black Hills Railroad—
constructed in part with bonds
voted by the county—puffed into
Albion. In 1887 the Fremont, Elk
horn & Missouri Valley Railroad
was built through the county.
The census of 1880 showed 4,170
persons living within the 683
square miles of Boone County.
By 1890 the population had
jumped to 8,683, by 1900 to 11,689.
The highest return in the county’s
history came in 1930, with 14,738.
The figures for 1950 show 10,703
persons living in the county, less
than the number residents there in
1900.
Cattlemen Are Enthused About
State Fair Angus Show
(SPECIAL) — Enthusiasm is
mounting among cattlemen in an-,
ticipation of the National Aber- j
deen-Angus show, which will be
held in conjunction with the 1952
Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln,
August 31 through September 5.
The State Fair schedule reveals
that the Angus show will begin
Wednesday, September 3, during
Fair Week, and will end with the
big sale Thursday. Th? animals
will be on exhibit throughout Fair
Week. ,
i Breeders from all parts of the
country are preparing their finest i
* Angus cattle for exhibition at this j
great event. The show will fea
ture some of the most outstanding
registered Angus ever shown in
i Nebraska.
Angus interests in the Corn
'husker state have increased many
fold in recent years. In fact, the
Sandhills section of the state has
become one of the most important
livestock producing areas in the
nation.
The area is ideal for the hardy
Angus breed. There is an abund
ant water supply, lush fields of
1 gress, and breeders in the terri
tory know how to produce cattle
efficiently.
The show at Lincoln will ac
commodate a large Angus entry,
with much of the huge cattle barn
expected to be set aside for the
(Black Beauties.
) $10,000 in prize money will be
offered to the exhibitors, and sev-'
' eral trophies will be presented.
. The Lincoln Chamber of Com-;
merce, several Lincoln firms and
||
the State Fair Board will supple
ment the prize list with trophies,
(according to Edwin Schultz, sec
retary of the Fair Board.
Presence of the National Aber
deen-Angus show in Nebraska
will no doubt add greatly to the
breed’s popularity in this region.
It will also add luster to the Ne
braska State Fair and should lure
many extra visitors to Lincoln.
Mrs. Rosa Adair Dies
Mrs. Rosa Adair, the wife of
Ream Adair, 729 Greeley, died
Saturday morning at 3:15 a.m.,
,in the Kansas University Medical
Center in Kansas City.
She was a member of the Pleas
ant Green Baptist church where!
she served in all of the auxiliaries!
of that church. She was on the
staff of teachers in the Kaw Valley
District Association. Mrs. Adair
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Tuskegee Prof Gets Ph.D.
William A. Hunter, youthful as
sistant professor of education at
Tuskegee institute, recently
earned his Ph.D from Iowa State
j College. Dr. Hunter, a veteran
of World War II, has been teach
ing at Tuskegee since 1950.
,was a member of the Hallie Q.
Brown Art and Study club and a
member of the Association of
Kansas Women’s clubs.
She leaves her husband, Ream
Adair; a brother, Watt Vann of
Lenapah, Oklahoma; five nieces,
Ruth Prather of Tulsa, Okla.,
Jlsitta Mayes and Martha Vann of
Richmond, Calif., Mrs. Mary Ward
Jand Mrs. Alberta Hines of K.C.K.;
a nephew, Wilbur Brown, K.C.K.;
| five great nephews, three great
nieces and many other relatives
and friends,
Mrs. Adair formerly lived in
Lincoln.
Contraltos Share
Spotlight on Radio
CHICAGO, 111.—Two outstand
. ing contraltos, Lois Ray, former
;Marian Anderson award winner,
and Shelby Davis, were recently
co-starred on “America’s Music”
on the NBC radio network.
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