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VOL. 6, No. 38__ Lincoln 3. Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper July 31 1952 D emocrat^ Elect_Stevenson-Sparkman A.F. & A.M. anal Communic^' A ^ .aha Omaha, Nebraska * throughout Nebraska atte thirty-fourth Annual Comr» tion of the Most Worshipful 1 Hall Grand Lodge which me. in Omaha, Nebraska, July 16th and 17th at their Masonic Temple, 26th and Blondo Streets. The Past Grand Masters in attendance were P.G.M. Edward Fletcher, P.G.M. P. H. Jenkins, PGM ^l. R. Good lett, Past Deputy Grand Master, Perry Warner of K. C., Kansas. Grand Worthy Matron Edith Wheatley and Grand Patron Leo Elmore, brought greetings from the Amaranthus Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star of Ne braska Jurisdiction, (P.H.A.) From the Kansas Jurisdiction was Brother Thomas Payne and Chair man of the C.C.F.C. Roosevelt Butler of Kansas City, Kans., who brought greetings from the great state of Kansas. The various com mittees reports showed that the Nebraska Jurisdiction had made tremendous strides in under the capable leadership of our Most Worshipful Grand Master, Clayton Paul Lewis, of Lincoln. The eight years M.WG.M'. Clayton P. Lewis has been in office, the Most Wor shipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Nebraska and Jurisdiction has enjoyed over one hundred per cent growth in membership. Dur ing this season monies were al lowed for the Youth Fraternities in the Jurisdiction and a special Scholarship Fund. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Most Worshipful Grand Master Clayton P. Lewis, Lincoln, Right Worship ful Deputy Grand Master Robert W. Harris, R. W. Grand Seniof Warden Leonard V. Turner, R.W. Junior Grand Warden Jasper Johnson, R.W. Grand Treasurer George W. Althouse, R.W. Grand Secretary John H. Andrews, Grand Trustees, Jewell R. Kelly, Lincoln, John Irvin, Lincoln, J. W. Dacus,, chairman of the C.C.F.C. Charles A. Stewart, W. Grand Lecturer C. C. Dudley, Senior Grand Deacon Henry Washington, Grand Island, Grand Junior Dea Clayton P. Lewis, re-elected Most Worshipful Grand Master. con W. C. Carter, Grand Senior Steward Geo. S. Brooks, Sioux City, Nebraska, Junior Grand Steward Wm. Sones, Grand At torney Senator John Adams, Sr., Grand Standard Bearer James C. Wilson, Lincoln, Grand Pursevant Bert Johnson, Grand Marshall Charles D. Early, Grand Chaplain Rev. D. Nicholson, Grand Custo dian P. L. Atkins, W. Grand Tylei Richard Turner. The Most Worshipful Prlnc< Hall Grand Lodge of Nebraskt closed Thursday evening to meel the third Wednesday in July 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska. Blessed Is the Leader Blessed is the leader who has not sought the high places, bu< who has been drafted into service, because of his ability and will ingness to serve. Blessed is the leader who knows where he is going, why he is go ing and how to get there. Blessed is the leader who knows no discouragement, who presents no alibi. Blessed is the leader who knows how to lead without being dicta torial; true leaders are humble. Blessed is the leader who seeks (Continued on Page 7) Center Chang'd to Mixed Use WASHINGTON (ANP) — The District Recreation Board this week approved the opening of Banneker Recreation Center on a nonsegregated basis. The opening of this center marks the 13th recreation center in the District of Columbia to be opened to all races, and the fourth to be shifted from exclusive Negro use. The transition committee an nounced that no hearings will be necessary on the proposed change because there has been no ex pressed outward opposition. Recreation Supt. Milo F. Chris tiansen recommended, however, that public hearings be held due to the fact that many organiza tions had expressed no opinion on the transition. He claimed that the committee had sent out 165 questionnaires to various organizations asking their opinian on the operation of the center on a non-discriminatory basis. Only 25 were returned, he said, and of that number 22, said they contemplated interracial pro grams and only one group said it could not use Banneker if it was bi-racial. The operation of Banneker on a segregated basis had created some difficulties, according to Chris tiansen, with government agencies, the armed forces, private industry, churches nad indepenedtn clubs who have requested the use of af cilities for interracial groups. “We do not anticipate an influx of white participation,” declared Christiansen, as only a few white families live in the neighborhood. I “On the other hand we do not forsee any community opposition [ to the unit or resulting public disorder.” The swimming pool has been used on an interracial basis since it was taken over by Government Services, Inc., last year, and no disturbances have occurred. Banneker is said to be the most complete equipped unit in the recreation department and the only one having a night-lighted field with a stadium seating more than 2,000 people. It also has a quarter mile track and a multi purpose field for softball, baseball or football. Los Angeles Host To NACW Conv. August 1-8 LOS ANGELES, Calif. (ANP)— “How to Achieve Our Goals” will be the theme of the 28th biennial session of the National Associa tion of Colored Women, which convenes, Aug. 1-8, in Belmont high school here. In line with this theme will be a forum on “The Importance of Voting,” which will be held Wed nesday. Among the participants on the forum will be Miss Bertha' S. Adkins, executive director of the women’s division of the Re publican National Committee; Mrs. India Edwards, vice chair man of the Democratic National Committee; Also Mrs. Venice Spraggs, cou rier of the women’s division of the National Democratic Commit tee, and Mrs. Thalia Davis Thomas, assistant, Republican Na tional Committee. Moss H. Kendrix, public rela tions man, Washington, will speak at a public education meeting at Shrine Auditorium, Sunday aft ernoon. Mrs. Ella P. Steward, national president, will preside over th< business sessions of the conven ; tlqn. will concern the Douglas i Home at Anacostia, proposed ex' ;'Pansion programs, both at Cedai Hill and on Washington, D.C., anc the business of the various schol arships funds. Mrs. Stewart is completing twc (consecutive terms of two years each as president of the group, Since the constitution forbids a president to serve more than two consecutive terms, a new presi dent will have to be elected. ROSCOE DUNJEE HONORED FOR NAACP WORK Roscoe Dunjee, for 37 years the editor of the Black Dispatch of Oklahoma City, Okla., recently was honored for his years of dynamic service as a leader for civil rights, particularly in the south. Awarding him for his work was the NAACP at its re cent #43rd annual convention, held in Oklahoma City. Dunjee was one of the leaders in the fight for fair educational prac tices in his state, beginning with the Ada Lois Siquel case, a fight which has opened Oklahoma’s state colleges to Negro graduate students without jimcrow. — (ANP) UL ’52 Annual Conference to Meet Sept. 1-5 CLEVELAND, Ohio—The 1952 Annual Conference of the National Urbr.n League, meeting in the Hotel Hollenden, September 1st through September 5th, will fea ture a series of panel discussions by experts on community services in health and welfare, housing, employment and vocational guid-j ance. Theme of the Conference will be “Building Better Human Relations Is Everybody’s Business” j with the Cleveland Urban League acting as host. The panels will concern them selves with reports of Commis sions which have been reviewing developments in health, housing, employment, vocational services and social welfare affecting the Negro population, Guichard Par ris, conference secretary, an nounced. At the first general session, Tuesday, there will be discussions on health, social welfare and housing. Speakers will be Dr, I Warren M. Banner, director ol NUL’s Department of ResearcV and Community Projects; Dr Campbell G. Murphy, associat< : professor "of the University o ■ ^ Denver School of Social Work, an' ; Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenrnan, NU1 ■ board member and housing experl Commission reports will bi given by Mrs. Nida M. Edward; (Elizabeth, N. J.), chairman of th< sub-group on health and welfare Henry von A very (St. Louis, Mo.) Alexander J. Allen (Pittsburgh Pa.); James N. Williams (Provi dence, R.I.); William H. Boone (Detroit, Mich.); Miss Gertrude Tanneyhill (New York City); Ed ward King (Grand Rapids, Mich.); and Samuel Rice (Chicago, 111.). Also, Thomas A. Webster (Kan 'sas City, Mo.), chairman of the sub-group on housing; Joseph Walker (Los Angeles, Calif.); Ed ward L. Cooper (Boston, Mass.); George H. Robinson (Newark, N.J.); Earl Fisher (New York); Whitney M. Young Jr. (Omaha, Neb.); Everett C. Spurlock (Pon tiac, Mich.); W. Robert Smalls (Warren, Ohio); and Eric B. Chandler (New Brunswick, N. J.). Kansas Citians % Active in AME General Confab CHICAGO, 111.—Delegates, al ternates and visitors from Kansas City were active in the AME Gen eral conference. Chester Gaskin of Kansas City, Kas., and Mrs. Zenobia Wilson of Kansas City, Mo., served as assist ants to Dr. Russell S. Brown, the chief secretary. Mrs. Cecil An derson of Lexington also t^as an assistant secretary. Prentiss J. Hoffman fifth Epis copal district public relations man, was sitting at the press table giv ing assistance to the active news paper people there. P. G. Porter of Olathe and J. D. William, Kansas City business man, were active as members of the steering committee. Porter served as floor leader for the fifth district. Mrs. Arzelia Gates, a delegate, as on the revision com mittee. Gov. Adlai Stevenson accepted the Democratic presidential nom ination with reverent gratitude and a pledge to fight with all his heart and soul to win the elec tion in November. The unanimously-acclaimed can didate said he regretted he could not have heard the words of ac ceptance “uttered by a stronger, wiser, better man than myself.” But his first words to the dele gates who nominated him and to the nation which has followed the Democratic party’s first wide-open race in 20 years were: “I accept your nomination—and your pro gram.” Stevenson explained he had not sought the honor he has won be cause re-election as governor of Illinois was “the full measure of my ambition.” He declared: “One does not treat the highest office within the gift of the people of Illinois as an alternative or a consolation prize.” The balding, 52-year-old nominee said he did not seek the presi dency because “the burdens of that office stagger the imagina tion.” He added this sentiment “is not to say I value it the less.” “Rather,” he said, “it is that I 'revere the office of President of the United States.” j The selection of Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama concluded j on a harmony note a clamorous i six days which witnessed re 1, peated north-south brawls which could have hurt the Democrats' » chances in November. . Sparkman is the first southerner > to be named on the national ticket since 1936 when former Vice Presi dent John Nance Garner of Texas made his last campaign as Presi dent Roosevelt’s running mate. In Sparkman, Stevenson is get ting as his helper a man of his own age, with somewhat compar able experience in United Nations affairs and the same stand on for eign and domestic policies—but with widely different views on civil rights issues. Sparkman would give the Deep South a place on the ticket for the first time in modern politics—a circumstance which seemed dic tated in part by the appeal that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican nominee, is reputed to have in Dixieland. Bob Hope to Receive Al Jolgon Award —Bob (Seldom at home) Hope, who has traveled more than 1,000,000 miles during the past 11 years to entertain servicemen, will reecive the first Al Jolson award and citation by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, it was learned last week. The radio and television come dian was chosen for the honor “for his outstanding and com mendable record during the past year relative to entertainment of hospitalized veterans and active service personnel." Hope will receive the award Aug. 4 at the guest banquet which will highlight the 53rd annual VFW national encampment in Los , Angeles. The Al Jolson Gold Medal award has been authorized by the VFW for presentation annually to the person in the amusement world who, in the opinion of the organization, has done more dur ing the preceding 12 months ia entertaining servicemen and hos pitalized veterans.