- o N *>> ' ^ Y v '* r™*i • • E 1 VOL. 6, No. 34 Lincoln 3. Nebr* -Official and Legal Newspaper September 25, 195S Reception for Rev. and Mrs. Brooks to Be Held Sept. 29 Edith Sampson Again Named to Represent UN WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ANP) —Mrs. Edith S. Sampson, a Chi cago lawyer, is one of ten men and women President Truman ap pointed last Friday to represent the United States at the forth coming United Nations General Assembly at New York. Mrs. Sampson will serve as an alternate delegate to the U.N. for the second time. She received such an appointment in 1950, but was succeeded in 1951 by Dr. Channing H. Tobias, who served as an alternate delegate at the General Assembly session in Paris. A member of the executive board of the United Nations Asso ciation of Chicago, Mrs. Sampson has been keenly interested in ac-j tivities of the United Nations ever since its creation and visited Lake1 Success several times as an ob server. As a member of the World Town Hall of the Air (a radio program developed from Amer ica’s Town Meeting of the Air) panel of leaders of citizens or ganization, Mrs. Sampson visited more than twenty countries in 1949, participating in the open de bate on current political questions with leading citizens in each country visited. The delegation of which Mrs. On Monday, September 29 th, the Trustee Department is spon soring an all church appreciation reception in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Brooks and family who will leave in the near future for California. The program will begin at 8 p.m. followed by refreshments. The public is invited to attend. Sampson is a member, will be headed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The delegates include Warren R. Austin of Vermont, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt of New York, Senator Theodore F. Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island, and Senator Alexander Wiley, Repub lican, of Wisconsin. Besides Mrs. Sampson, the al ternates are Ambassador-at-Large Phillip C. Jessup, Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon; Benja min V. Cohen, and Isador Lubin. NOTICES ARE IN THE MAIL THIS WEEK PLEASE PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION! DON'T PUT IT OFF ■mIi i.• I .•.• mm hm A GREAT AFRICAN SEAPORT—A city that has earned the title “Most Ancient and Loyal” is that of Freetown, Sierra Leone in Africa. The top picture displays the port facilities of this metropolis. The port, itself, is not deep enough to take the largest ocean liners, but a deep water quay now is being built. The bottom picture illustrates Freetown’s ancient architecture which makes it one of Africa’s most picturesque areas. Universal tin roofs protect the homes from the heavy deluges in the rainy season. Tile roofs just do not stay dry. These roofs usually have an unusually dingy appearance be cause the sun flakes the paints off the roofs. Freetown has its slums, too, but generally it is considered a highly cultured center which is beginning to influence and bring progress to the interior of Sierra Leone.—(ANP) ^nZiaXo^ C Rowan Earns Hillman Award NEW YORK—(ANP)—Carl T. Rowan, reporter for the Minne polis Tribune, a daily newspaper, earned $500 from the Sidney Hill man Foundation for a series of newspaper articles dealing with race relations in the South. Rowan toured the South for his newspaper and wrote a series of articles entitled “How Far From Slavery?” dealing with southern race relations. He revisited his native southland, to report on Ne gro life and the changes which have taken place since his boy hood. Although first appearing in the Minneapolis Tribune, the articles were later elaborated and madfe into a full-length book which now is on the book stands. Its title is ‘‘South of Freedom.” The Sidney Hillman Foundation! was created in 1947 in order to keep alive the late labor leader’s ideas of enlightened^ labor-man agement relations, race relations, world peace and related interests. Other awards were made last week in recognition of outstanding 1 magazine reporting and for the I mit.ct.n nding work of non-fiction Presentation ceremonies ade in the Music Room ol I the Biltmore hotel here. * I Judges who made the award; were: Lewis Bannett, book editor New York Herald Tribune, Wil liam L. Shirer, novelist and for mer foreign correspondent and ra dio commentator, and Bruce Bli ven, chairman of the editorial board, The New Republic. Rowan has been a member of the Minneapolis Tribune news staff since November, 1948. He is a general assignment reporter. A graduate of Oberlin college, Ober line, Ohio, Rowan received a mas ter of arts degree in journalism at the University of Minnesota in 1948. Before joining the Tribune staff, Rowan was a reporter for the Minneapolis Spokesman, the St. Paul Recorder and the Balti more, Md., Afro-American. A veteran of World War II, he served as communications offi cer on two ships with the Atlantic fleet and now is a lieutenant (jg) in the naval reserve. Milwaukee Gets First Negro Public Accountant MILWAUKEE, Wis.—(ANP) — Mrs. Elvera W. Taylor who bore the distinction of being one of only itwo colored women to hold a cer tified public accountant’s license | in Chicago has located in Milwau kee She opened a branch of the Theodore A. Jones & Co., Chicago accounting firm with offices at 623 North 2nd street. | Mrs. Taylor, a long time asso ciate of the Theodore A. Jones Co., has been elected to partnership in the firm. She became a resident of Mil waukee recently when her hus band, Corneff Taylor, was ap pointed executive director of the Milwaukee Commission on Human Relations. Nelson Jackson Guest Speaker NCC Graduates J Receive Honors si DURHAM, N.C. (ANP) — Two 0 graduates of North Carolina col- F lege, the Misses Borlio Ray and & Carolyn Smith, both natives of v New Born, N.C., recently received academic honors. n Miss Ray, a 1952 graduate of I NCC and a dramatics major, has j received a fellowship in the de- \ partment of drama at Western Re- t serve university, Cleveland, Ohio, c She will concentrate her work at > the university’s famed Karamu j House which specializes in music, ( drama, art, and the dance. ] At NCC, Miss Ray was an out standing player with the Thespi- . ans, NCC dramatic group An honor graduate, she is a member tof Alpha Kappa Mu, dramatics honorary, and Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Miss Smith received her mas ter’s degree from Boston univer sity on last Aug. 16 having main tained a straight “A” average dur-| ing her matriculation. In addition, she worked as a graduate assistant Iand was initiated into Pi Lambda Theta, national honorary society. She was graduated from NCC in June, 1951. She is the grand daughter of the late Dr. James S ; Shepard, founder and first presi dent of NCC. Life in Parsonage Program Planned The Rev. Ralph G. Nathan, pas tor of Newman Methodist Church at 23rd and S, announces what he describes as a “rich hour of hu mor and happiness” is scheduled at the church at 4 pjn. next Sun day. At that hour a program will be presented in which the wives of a number of Lincoln ministers will describe life and experiences in personages. The program is open to all. Mrs. Vera Powell will be mistress of ceremonies and par ticipants will be: Mrs. Everett Sabin. Mrs. T. H. Leonard. Mrs. E. T. Streeter. Mrs. C. L. Shubert. Mrs. Ward Conklin. Mrs. Harold Sandall. i -- Wilberforce U. Alumni Plan to Donale $6,000 In Books to Library WILBERFORCE, Ohio (ANP) — The alumni of Wilberforce have on foot a plan to contribute $6,000 worth of books to the library of the university, it was announced last week by John F. Morning, president of the National Alumni Association. Wilberforce is one of the oldest Negro institutions of higher learn ing in the United States. To give the university greater support, the Alumni Association was re cently reorganized and geared to a more extensive program. Dr. Charles L. Hill, president of Wilberforce University, said last week the gift would be of great help to the university in furnish Nelson C. Jackson of New York, lirector of community services for National Urban League, arrived n Lincoln Monday for conferences m race relationships, including >lans for housing of minority [roups in connection with reacti vation of Lincoln’s Air Base. W. H. Burton of Lincoln, chair nan of the Lincoln Urban Hague’s Housing Committee, oined Jackson during an inter riew with Max Kier, chairman of .he City Council’s Air Base Co ordinating commit tee. Jack iVeeks, another committee mem ber, and Mrs. Sarah Walker, executive secretary of the Urban League, were present. The meeting with Kier, Urban League representatives empha sized, is to be' but one that will be held early next week with groups in Lincoln to acquaint Jackson with the matters of race relations in Lincoln. Jackson, a former professor at the University of Atlanta, was quoted in comment that “Omaha has moved much faster than many other communities in the matter of race relations.” Following a meeting of his Urban League Housing Commit ‘ tee Friday, Burton issued a state • ment terming the situation ‘'tragic, because of the disregard on the part of the City Council and mayor, because of their attitude on housing, and because of the influx, shortly, of hundreds of Negroes who will be coming into the city, which will increase the problem greatly.” “Something must be done soon,” t Burton told the press in reporting his committee’s meeting, “or it will be hard to handle the in flux. It is hard to predict what the results will be.” Mrs. Walker said she called the committee together because she was unable to find homes for two Negro families who are among 32 families who will have to move from Huskerville because of Air Base reactivation. Soloist Returns TULSA, Okla. (ANP) — Mrs. Cleo Ross Meeker, dramatic soprano returned last week from New York City where she at tended Columbia University Sum mer session. Mrs. Meeker was selected to sing in the 150 voiced choir at the famed Riverside Church in Rocke- # feller Center. The choir was interracial and inter-denominational. Many of the choir members were vo