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I I Terror Strikes Harlem As Crime Takes Over NEW YORK (ANP) — Terror reigns in Harlem. An unprece dented wave of snatchings, mug gings, hold-ups and house rob beries have swept in with the Christmas season that baffles the police and defies stopping. Over at the swanky Riverton, owned by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the situation has gotten so serious, the manage ment has sent letters to every ten ant urging the utmost caution, not only in walking through the beau tiful park surrounding the apart ments, but in riding elevators and in admitting unknown persons to apartments. In a newly concocted scheme, robbers now disguise themselves j as delivery boys, bringing fake parcels to the elevators. Unsus pecting passengers enter the sell service cars with a pistol or a switch blade. Several cases of robbery at knife-point in this fashion have been reported to the Riverton management which can do noth ing about the matter. Further, robbers boldly ring apartment door bells and gain en try through other ruses, sticking up the tenants and making get aways before help can be had. Street hoid-ups are becoming more and more common. Purse snatching has reached the epi demic stage. Last Thursday night, two women had their purses snatched within two hours of each other and within one block pf: each other. * The thieves madej clean get-aways. In one case, teen-agers accosted a woman J walking up the outer walk near Madison Avenue after she had --. _==l GOOD SPORTS * Lynn Fishman, young Muscular Dystrophy victim from New York City, and Bill Stern, nationally known sports personality, collab orate on making a contribution to the 1952-53 Muscular Dystrophy appeal. Bill Stern is serving as National Chairman for the Sports Committee for the Muscular Dys trophy Associations of America, Inc., nationwide campaign, cur rently being conducted throughout December. Funds are being sought to sponsor medical research to find treatment and cure for thousands of youngsters like little Lynn who are victims of this progressively crippling disease. Fight Muscular Dystrophy through research. Give to your local Mus cular Dystrophy ’Association Chap ter, or to M. D. A , New York ft, N, Y. left the bus at 135th and Madison. They darted out from behind parked cars and, grabbing her dangling purse, ran rapidly up to 138th street, crossed Fifth ave nue and were lost in the “jungles”. Riverton guards, assigned to pro tect property and persons, were nowhere to be seen. Neither were the city police whose prowl cars seldom visit this neighborhood. All this happens just at the time a committee visited the Po lice Commissioner asking addi tional police protection in the area between 125th Street down to 59th Street on the West Side (Eighth Avenue to the River). Reports are that students at Barnard college, a woman's col lege unit of Columbia university, are warned not to leave the build ings after dark unaccompanied. Tenants of apartment houses in the neighborhood of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine report fre quent robberies (one house was robbed 35 times within a month). Residents of the avenues bor dering the parks in the area dare not venture near the parks after dark. The whole community is in a frenzy of fear and Police Com missioner Monaghan has promised additional police as fast as they* can be added to the force. He has1; asked for a force of 25,000 men,1 but even that may be inadequate to combat the rising tide Qi nrlm* that is terrorizing Harlem. Y ule-Birthday Banquet Given Ex-Slave, 106 Mrs. Emma Davis, 2156 U, spent a quiet Christmas day with her son, Girt Davis, and grandson. Christmas day, 1952, was the oc casion of Mrs. Davis’ 106th birth day. Employees of the First Trust Company, the Salvation Army, and the Girl Scouts contributed food for the Christmas-birthday banquet. Mrs. Davis says she was born in Waxahatchee, Tex., in 1846 and worked as a slave girl until 1865. She lived in Cooper, Tex., most of her life but moved to Lincoln to live with her son, Girt, five years ago. Anohter son, Jim Fuller, 2244 S, also lives in Lin coln but was not present for the birthday dinner. Girt Davis says his mother is not able to walk well enough to leave the house. She spends her time sewing and making quilts. “Second-Hand Christians,” Too Many Americans Are NEW YORK— (ANP) —Church membership in the United States is at an alltime high of 85 million people. The reason these 85 mil ilion professed servants of God i aren’t making more of a spiritual inlfcact on American life is be cause too many of them are sec ond-hand Christians, claims Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in an ar ticle in the December issue of Pageant Magazine. For too many American church members their religion is formal, not vital; they have inherited it from their families or borrowed it from their friends. They believe after a fashion, says Dr. Fosdick, but the profound experiences of the human soul which transform (character, sustain strength and Thought for Today Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. He that walketh in his upright ness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. Proverbs 14:1.2. F. Rivers May Become Federal Judge NEW YORK — (ANP) — When Justice Francis Rivers’ 10-year term as member of the City Court judiciary expires on Dec. 31, there is a strong probability that the life-long Republican will be re warded with an appointment to the U. S. District Court. If this happens, Judge Rivers will be the First Negro appointed to that court. Although the salary is $5,000 a year less than his present sal ary, the job is a lifetime one, compared with the terms served in other courts. A long-time ad viser on Republican affairs to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Her bert Brownell, Rivers’ appoint ment is considered a foregone conclusion. At the same time, there is a well defined rumor that James Yeargin, for 13 years an assist ant district attorney, now in the homicide division, also will be re warded for his long service to the party. ' Yeargin was an unsuc cessful judicial candidate on the Republican ticket two years ago and returned to his job where he is one of the main cogs in the prosecutor’s office. Bakers Cooperate With OPS to Guard Choppers’ Budgets Most housewives recently be gan paying an additional penny for white bread—but they’re get ting bigger loaves for their money. This was pointed out recently by Henry C. Winters, district en forcement director for the Office of Price Stabilization, who praised bakeries in Nebraska communities for the compliance with OPS price regulations, OPS recently granted the bak eries an increase of one cent a loaf for white bread, with the stipulation that the weight of the loaf must be upped from 20 to 21 y4 ounces. An intensive check of the prin cipal bakeries by OPS enforce ment agents reveal that in nearly all cases, bakeries have adjusted their weights to comply with the ruling. In a few instances, where the adjustment had not been made, bakery officials readily agreed to comply, after the ruling was explained to them. “Although a penny per loaf seems like a trifling increase, it amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the annual house hold budgets of Nebraskans,” said Mr. Winters. “Because of the co operation of the bakeries with OPS, housewives can be assured that they are still getting full value when they buy bread.” State OPS Chief To Quit Job Soon Edwin Moran, Nebraska district director of the Office of Price Stabilization has submitted his resignation from the price con trols job which he has held since March 19, 1951. His successor has not been named. Mr, Moran plans to return to his private law practice in Ne braska City. courage, and make God person ally real, they have not known first hand. "IVOIdOiSIH iViS U Speaker At St. John Banquet New Executive Secretary Is War Veteran The new executive director of the Lincoln Urban League, Sid ney H. Alexander jr., is a veteran of World War II. The 33-year-old Denver man will assume his post in early January. He will make his first offi cial public ap pearance at the league’s 21st annual dinner, January 28th. Acting execu tive secretaryCoJ|r(esy Linco(n Star . since the resig- S. Alexander nation of Lynwood 'Parker in August has been Mrs. Sara Walker. Twenty-Nine Favor More Road Revenue By CLIFF H.ANDAHL Chairman, Nebraska Kdttors Hlabwar Cssltrtscr It Is just » coincidence, but 21 members of the Nebraska Legis lature—exactly the required num ber to pass legislation with an emergency clause—are on record in favor of increasing state funds for highway construction. At least that is their attitude as expressed in a pre-election poll, and there is no reason to believe it has changed since. As for the other 14 members of the Legisla ture, they are either uncommitted or open-minded. Legislation passed with emer gency clause becomes effective immediately; legislation without the emergency clause becomes effective 90 days after passage The former requires 29 votes for passage; the latter 22 votes. Among 1952 senators answering a flat “yes” for increased road revenue are J. Monroe Bixler, Harrison; Hal Bridenbaugh, Da kota City; Dwight W. Burney, Hartington; H. K. Diers, Gresham; Tom Dooley, Pa pill ion; A. A Fenske, Sunol; O. H. Liebers, Lin coln; C. C. Lillibridge, Crete; Joseph D. Martin, Grand Island; Robert D. McNutt, Lincoln; L. M. Shultz, Rogers; and Karl Vogel. Omaha. Of these, Liebers, Lilli bridge and Vogel voted to kill the gas tax bill in the 1951 Legisla j ture. On Saturday night, December 27th, The Lebanon Lodge No. 3, sponsored a St. John’s Day Ban quet at the Lincoln Urban League. Honorable Charles A. Stewart, * C.C.F.C., of Omaha, Nebraska, was the guest speaker. Using the eleventh chapter of St. John and the 33 and 44 verses as the background of his topic, “BURIED TALENTS—UNLOCK ING YOUR POSSIBILITIES,” Hon.*Stewart says: Stir up the gift that is in you, have a definite aim, and a burning desire to get what you want. Desire is the starting point of all achievements. To be come satisfied with oneself is to stop growing. Giving four definite purposes for achievement, Hon. Stewart states further: 1— Know what you want( fix in your mind the exact thing that you want, be definite), 2— Set a time to get it( Estab lish a definite date for the ac quiring of the thing desired), 3— Know why you want it (de termine what you intend to give in return for the thing you desire, as there’s no reasoning in the thought that you get something for noth ing), and 4— Know how to get it (create a definite plan fnr putting into ac tion your desired goal). These pur poses, backed by the urge to go in the right direction, the urge to go from where we are to beyond ■ ourselves, and the urge to be at tached (do a little more than that which you’re being paid); These are the bases for the stimulation of unlimited possibilities. Others appearing on the pro gram were: Rev. Wm. I Monroe, Prayer; Choral selection by the Denton Chapel Trio, directed by Mrs. Sarah Tarpley, a piano se lection my master Charles Bonds, and solos rendered by Mrs. Le nora Letcher and George Randol. Brother Clayton P. Lewis, Grand Master of the lodge, gave the clos-. ing remarks and introduced the grand officers, visitors and com mittee members. Stock Notes The coupon that appears in the lower right hand corner of The Voice, is for all persons in Ne braska, who are interested in securing better housing for the lower income groups in this area. All Citizens of the State of Ne braska are asked to join together and support this very worthy movement. Any questions that you might have concerning thi^s stock please call, 2-2247, or 2-4085. NORTHSIDE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Federal regulation requires that this offer be confined to i residents of Nebraska. I AM INTERESTED Send me a Prospectus: I would like to know more about this great movement to provide housing for the low' income groups in this area. I will do my share. NAME.7. j ADDRESS... CITY .. ...State of Nebraska Mail this coupon to the Northside Improvement Association , i at 1319 O Sheet, Lincoln, Netfra'-ka, or The Voive P. O. Box 20J3.