Ted R. Hugh es to Head
1953 March of Dimes
NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 2—The
1953 March of Dimes in Nebraska
will be headed by Ted R. Hughes
of Seward, Basil O’Connor, presi
dent of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, announced
today.
Hughes takes over the post held
for the past six years by Dr.
Reuben G. Gustavson, Chancellor
of the University of Nebraska,
who will continue serving as hon
orary state chairman.
“The January March of Dimes
in Nebraska will be held in the
wake of unprecedented polio in
cidence,” Hughes said.. “Perhaps
never before has the tremendous
need for a successful March of
Dimes been so clearly demon
strated in our state.”
In announcing the appointment,
O’Connor said: “We are indeed
fortunate to have the type of lead
ership Mr. Hughes can provide
at a time when we need it most.
It is tragic, of course, that at the
hour when the laboratory battle
against polio appears the bright
est, we should be stricken with
another national epidemic. I am
^certain, however, that the people
will see this battle through.
“No one need explain to Ne
braskans the meaning of infan
tile paralysis in epidemic propor
tions. Neither must the impor
tance of carrying the research
fight against the disease to an
early victory be emphasized. Ne
braska knows these things from
first-hand experience.
“I am confident that, under the
leadership of Mr. Hughes and Dr.
Gustavson, the people of Ne
braska will do everything possible
to assure both patients—present
and future—and researchers that
the 1953 March of Dimes funds
will be sufficient to carry on the
TED R. HUGHES
program.”
Hughes is secretary-treasurer of
Hughes Brothers, employing some
400 persons at Seward. He has
served as vice-chairman of the
state March of Dimes committee
for the past year and has headed
the Dimes drive in Seward county
for the past two years. Hughes
is a permanent contributing mem
ber of Shriners Hospital for Crip
pled Children.
A past president of the Seward
Chamber of Commerrce, Hughes
has been active in civic affairs for
the past quarter century. He is
married and has two children.
In accepting the appointment
Hughes stated: “As a native Ne
braskan I have seen our people
react to tornadoes", drouth, crop
failure and flood. Through our
mutual effort we have always
come out on top. In the same
manner, we will work together
to win this battle against infantile
paralysis.”
The drive begins January 2.
Medical Society
Admits 5 Negroes
WASHINGTON (ANP) — The
District Medical Society last week
voted to accept the membership
of five Negro physicians into its
organization.
The executive board agreed to
permit Negro members for the
first time in its 60-year history.
The new members are Dr. Ed
ward C. Mazique, Dr. John Sin
clair Perry, Dr. C. Herbert Mar
shall, Jr., Dr. Arthur Hugh Sim
mons and Dr. Reginald Girard
James.
Dr. Mazique is president of the
Medico-Chirurgical Society in the
District of Columbia and a mem
ber of the District Commissioners’
Citizen Advisory Council.
Dr. Perry is former president of
the Medico-Chirurgilcal Society,
and a former assistant in neuro
psychiatry at Freedmen’s hospital.
He has also served as a member of
the Psychiatric division of the Fort
Myer Examination board.
Dr. Marshall has served as
president of the National Medical
Association and as president of the
Washington branch of the NAACP.
Dr. Simmons is an associate to
the medical director of Freedom’s
hospital, and former president of
the Medico-Chirurigal society.
Dr. James is a member of the
dermatology staff of Freedmen’s
hospital and was previously affili
ated with the State health depart
Dr. Diggs Gets
Harlem Post
NEW YORK (ANP)-The elec
tion of Dr. Mary Huff Diggs, pro
fessor of sociology at Hunter col
lege, as chairman of the Harlem
District Committee of the Com
munity Service Soviety was an
nounced last week. She succeeds
Mrs. Floyd R. Banks Jr., formerly
dean of women at Morgan State
college (MD), who served for two
years.
The Harlem committee, an in
terracial group of women, was
formed in {1939 to advise with the
society’s professional staff on
matters affecting the Harlem com
munity and its families. The
(committee consists of 20 leaders in
civic, educational and commun
jity affairs.
Lincoln Grad Earns
French Scholarship
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Penn.
— (ANP)—John A. Jones Jr., of
[York, Penn., a 1949 graduate of
| Lincoln ufiiversity, has been
awarded a French Government
fellowship, it was announced this
week by Dr. Horace M. Bond,
president of the university.
Jones has been assigned to study
at the University of Pennsylvania.
He sailed for Europe on Sept. 17
I aboard the Queen Elizabeth.
| ment of Alabama at Tuskegee and
at Veterans Administration and the
U. S. Public Health Service in
I Washington.
Cliff o' *v/ jore Appointed
U.S. mission er
Band Day u
Be October 11
High school bandsmen — 3,242
strong—will participate in the an
nual University of Nebraska Band],
Day Oct. 11 in conjunction with <
the Kansas State-Nebraska foot
ball game.
* A parade through Lincoln’s
business district in the morning
will precede the massing of the
62 bands and the University of
Nebraska band in a half-time
spectacle on the gridiron. In addi
tion there will be 301 baton twirl -
ers.
The 62 bands selected this year
include organizations rejected in
1951 because of limited space, Don
Lentz, director of Band Day, ex
plained. In 1951, 120 bands ap
plied for Band Day and only 60
were chosen. This year invitations
were sent to all bands not ac
cepted last year.
Several bands which never have
participated in Band Day will be
present this year, Lentz said.
Following are the units selected
for this year:
Ashland Johnson
Arcadia Kearney
Albion Kimball
Arapahoe Lincoln High
Aurora Lexington
Auburn Lincoln Northeast
Beaver City Loup City
Bertrand Madison
| Big Springs Nebraska City
iBlue Hill Nemaha
Broken Bow Ord
Central City Orleans
Ceresco Pawnee City
Chadron Pierce
Chapman Polk
Cook Ravenna
Crete RushviUe
Culbertson Scotia
DeWitt Scottgbbluff
Dodge Sidney
Fairfield Stanton
Fairmont Si. Mary s (O Neill)
Franklin Stromsbur*
Genoa button
Gothenburg Walthill
Grand Island Wausa
Harrison West Point
Holbrook W isner
Humboldt Wymore
Malone Fund
Educates Negro
The Clyde Malone Educational
Fund—planned as a memorial to
a former executive secretary of
the Lincoln Urban League—is
making possible the education of
a young Negro at the University
of Nebraska.
Councilman Tom Pansing, one
of those who made the recom
mendation for establishment of
the fund to assist deserving young
students, told ’ the Urban League
board the action represented the
first application of the fund since
it was created. Identity of the
student was not revealed.
The board heard reports from
Nelson C. Jackson of New York
City, community services repre
sentative of the National Urban
League, following his three-day
visit in Lincoln. With Executive
Secretary Whitney Young of
Omaha’s Urban League as a
visitor, the board discussed prob
lems of Urban League by-laws, a
successor to Lynnwood Parker,
former executive secretary who
resigned Sept. 8, and the perennial
question of housing.
Robert T. Malone, president of
the board of the Urban League,
said that a nominating committee
headed by Dale Weeks would
continue its discussions prefacing
recommendation of a new execu
tive secreary, and that Mrs.
NEW YORK (ANP)—Clifford R. Moore last week was
sworn in as the first Negro U. S. commissioner since the
Reconstruction period.
The 38 year old Moore, an attorney, and New Jersey
native, was sworn in by Federal Judge Phillip Forman to
succeed the late Walter B. Petry. As commissioner his
duties will include trial of all petty cases which involve fines
of less than $1,000 or jail sentences under six months. He
also will have jurisdiction over minor crimes committed at
JAMES W. NICHOLS
Young Radio Evangelist
To Speak in Omaha
James W. Nichols, the 24 year
old radio evangelist who raised
$250,000 in three months time to
finance a nation-wide radio pro
gram for the churches of Christ,
will be in Omaha, Nebraska on
Friday, October 3, and will speak
at the Church of Christ, 514i
Dodge Street at 8:00 p.m.
TIME magazine and other na
tional publications have told the
story recently of how Nichols,
alone and practically unaided, set
out to perform the Herculean task
of raising the necessary funds to
put the Church of Christ on the
national airways for a year.
The Church of Christ differs
from other religious groups. It has
no central organizations to tie the
various congregations together.
Each is a separate entity, choosing
its own preachers, going its own
way with qo national board to
plan national programs.
Nominations for
Freedom Foundation
Awards Being Accepted
Nominations for the 1952 Free
doms Foundation Awards now are
being accepted from individuals,
organizations and/or schools.
The awards will be presented to
Americans who help bring about
a better understanding of Freedom
by the things they do, write, or
say.
Organizations or individuals
who receive an award will be pre
sented cash or honor medals.
Schools will get an all-expense
paid trip to the Valley Forge Pil
grimage and honor medals.
To be eligible, the material en
tered must be based on a funda
mental principle, or fundamental
principles, of the Credo of the
American Way of Life.
Entry blanks must be submitted
to-Freedoms Foundations, Valley
Forge, Pa., before Nov. 11. Fur
ther information about the awards
may be obtained by writing that
address.
Sarah Walker, acting executive
secreary, would continue in the
interim.
f ort L>ix, a military post.
Other duties of commissioners
are the arraignment of all prison
ers arrested by FBI agents and
U.S. marshals, the setting of bail
and holding preliminary hearings
prior to pleadings in the U.S. Dis
trict court.
Moore launched his federal
career while a student in 1946 at
Temple university law school. At
that time he was named a bailiff.
Two years later, he took over as
Judge Forman’s law clerk follow
ing the resignation of Clifton C.
Bennet, who retired to private
practice.
Moore passed his bar examina
tions in 1949 and entered private
law practice in 1950.
One of the first three colord
| persons to be commissioned an
officer in the New Jersey national
guard, Moore later saw active
duty overseas during World war
II. He served with the 600th
field artillery battalion as an fca
i telligence officer, with the 372nd
i and the 184th field artillery, later
t with the 92nd as a captain. As C
J result of his service in three oi
the Italian campaign operations;
-(he received the Purple Heart and
; the Bronze Star with a unit cita
, tion. *i
Moore was named by Gov. Al
fred Driscoll in 1951 to serve on
the New Jersey state commission
on civil rights nnd was New Jer
sey attorney for the NAACP. He
also was counsel of record for the
NAACP in the Trenton Six case.
Moore did his undergraduate
work at New Jersey State Teach
ers college, received a B.S. in
1935. He then taught social studies
at Lawnside, J. J., 1935-41,
He assisted in the drafting of
an anti-segregation clause in 1947.
The Afro-American award for
achievement was presented him
in 1948.
Besides the NAACP, he Is a
member of the Trenton Council
for Human Relations, N.J. Joint
Council on Civil Rights, eMrcer
I County Bar Association, Elks,
I Philadelphia Fellowship commis
sion.
He is the author of several
books. Among them are:
Constitutional Law—White Pri
maries, 1947; Anti-Negro Re
strictive Covenants and Judicial
Enforcement Constituting State
Action under the 14th Amend
ment, and Restrictive Race Cove
nants—Judicial Enforcement In
valid.
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