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VOL. 7, No. 17 Lincoln 3, Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper February 26, 1953
Lincoln Chiefs Sign
Outstanding Cat**1
Courtesy Lincoln Journal
Stanley R. Glenn
Stanley R. Glenn, 26 years old,
6' 2", 197 pound right hand hitting
catcher, has been purchased by
the Lincoln Baseball Club from
the Hartford Club in the class “A”
Eastern League. Playing with
Quebec in the Provincial League
last season, Glenn hit .254 and
moved up to the Hartford Club
where he batted .276. Glenn re
sides in Philadelphia and is col
ored. Glenn comes highly recom
mended from the Boston Braves
organization. General Manager
John Quinn says, “Stanley is one
of the outstanding defensive catch
ers in the minor leagues today.
He can field, throw and hit with
any “AAA” club. Under Lou Fin
ney’s tutelage his hitting should
improve so he will be an out
standing performer in»Lincoln this
season.” Dutch Dorman, former
manager of Glenn with the Hart
ford Club and now manager at
Hagerstown says, “He is an agres
sive, colorful, hustling athlete. The
fans will love him; the opposition
will fear him. He is the personi
fication of baseball spirit in
America.” Bill Hayes says, “I’m
glad we’ve got him.”
Social Agencies
To Mark 30th Year
Thirty years of central fi
nancing and community planning
will be celebrated Feb. 26 by the
Lincoln Community Chest and
Council of Social Agencies.
John D. Mattox, president of
the Macon, Ga., Council of Social
Agencies, will be guest speaker at
the annual meeting of the two
organizations to be held at the
Cornhusker.
The Chest and Council, headed
by Albert A. Held and Mrs. E. J.
Faulkner, respectively, started op
erations in Lincoln in 1923, rais
ing $96,885 that year. The 1952
campaign raised $467,947.
The annual meeting will also
mark the 30th year of adminis
tration by Louis W. Horne, execu
tive secretary.
Alexander Speaks
In Omaha
Sidney Alexander, Lincoln Ur
ban League executive secretary,
was the main speaker at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Omaha NAACP Sunday afternoon,
February 22. The subject of Mr.
Alexander’s talk was "Brother
hood From Day to Day?” The
meeting was held at the, North
side Y.M.C.A.
Gen manager Bill Hayes
announv _u that the Lincoln Chiefs
iBaseball Club will hold an open!
house in the Chamber of Com
merce on Sunday, March 8, from
1 to 5 p.m. Hayes inaugurated;
this idea at Buffalo last year and
there, midst snow and sleet, more
than 1,200 fans visited the offices
that day. Detailed displays easily
[understood, will be shown of con-!
[tract forms, assignment forms,;
and general information regard-;
ing the sale, purchase and option (
of players, available for public i
consumption. In addition to this,
the Western League system for
planning schedules will be on dis
play. Schedules, complete player
rosters, and Baseball Information
Hand Books, a book written and
copyrighted by the Chiefs General;
Manager, will be presented to all
guests. There is no admission
charge and all baseball fans are
welcome. Children under 12 must
be accompanied by a parent. This
will be a golden opportunity to
see a baseball office in action, as
well as to meet Bill Hayes and
his baseball office secretary, Shir
ley Lanz. Chamber of Commerce
offices are located at 208 No. 11th
St. The display will be held in
the Lincoln Room. One or more
radio stations will broadcast, in
cluding fan interviews, during the
open house period.
State Merit System
Offers Exams to
HS Seniors
The annual Merit System ex
aminations for seniors from high
school commercial departments
will be given on Saturday, March
21. The examinations will be for
the two positions, Typist Clerk
I and Stenographer Clerk I. It is
expected that about 1200 seniors
frorrf more than 100 high schools
will take the examinations.
The examinations will be given
in any high school where five or
more students make application
and where there is a faculty
member qualified to give the ex
amination. Students from schools
with fewer than five applicants
will be examined in another
nearby high school.
All participating students will
take a written examination cov
ering English usage, business
arithmetic, spelling, etc. Those in
terested in the typing positions
will take performance test in
that field and the stenographers
will also be tested in the short
hand skills. Quite a number will
elect to take examinations in both
fields. The entire examination re
quires approximately three hours.
Most of the Merit System jobs
which will be offered these sen
iors after graduation will be in the
offices of county assistance, state
employment and local health.
There also will be some openings
in the State offices of these de
partments in Lincoln.
FEP Hearing
0» March 2
A public hearing on the fair
employment practices bill intro
duced in the Nebraska Legislature
will be held on March 2 at the
State Capitol. The FEP bill was
! introduced by Senator John
I Larkin, Jr., of Omaha.
i Today’s Thought
Liberty cannot be established
. 'vthout morality, nor morality
hout faith.
—Horace Greeley
Five Points
Held on Charges
Of Tax Evasion
U.S. CLAIMS BIG INCOME
IN GAMBLING
| Benjamin F. Hooper, “unofficial
mayor” of Denver’s Five Points,
was arrested Thursday (Febr. 12)
on charges of evading income tax
payments on an estimated $110,000
which the federal government
claims he made in backroom gam
bling. Hooper, operator of the
Ex-Servicemen’s Social and Rec
reation club at 2625 Welton street,
was accused in a federal grand
jury indictment of making profits
from games of chance conducted j
in a back room of the popular
Five Points night spot.
Hooper’s arrest was ordered in
a warrent drawn on a secret grand
jury indictment returned late
Wednesday which covered his in
come from 1946 through 1951.
He was arrested at noon Thursday
by Stan Westerlind and Charles
Calvert, deputy U.S. marshals, and
held for arraignment. Bond was
set by the jury at $5,000.
$33,000 Tax Claims
The s i x-c o u n t indictment
charged Hooper with failure to
pay approximately $33,000 in in
come taxes for the six-year
period.
The year 1946, according to the
indictment was the best for the
“mayor.” Hooper reported $12,
558 income for the year but in
ternal revenue records show he
had an income of $33,715.
Jn 1951, the last year covered
by the indictment, Hooper claimed
he made only $3,549. Actually,
the government charges, he had an
income of $11,254.
Maximum sentence would be
five years in prison and a $10,000
fine on each of six counts.
Power Since Depression
For Hooper, who set up bread
lines in The Five Points district
during depression days, the grand j
jury indictment meant a severe
blow to his district power and
prestige.
Immediately after World War I,
Hooper organized the club he op
erates and in the same building
put in a bar, restaurant and a fifty
room hotel. The building is re
garded as one of the brightest
entertainment spots in the Five
Points area.
Denver police records show
Hooper was arrested in August,
1935, on a charge of operating a
gambling game. He paid a fine
of $50 and costs. In February,
1939, he was charged with viola
tion of the city liquor code and
paid a fine of $25.
This is taken from DENVER
POST of Friday, 13. Five Points
as you no doubt know, is the
Harlem of Denver.
Omaha OPS Office
To Close March 9
The Nebraska District Office of
Price Stabilization in Omaha will
cease operations effective March
9, Acting District Director Henry
C. Winters announced today. After
that date, he said. Inquiries re
garding OPS matters should be
directed to the Regional OPS Of
fice, 112 West Ninth Street, Kan
sas City 0, Mo.
“Closing of the District OPS
! OffiM is in linn with President
Thurgood Marshall
Scores Enemies of FEPC
PITTSBURGH — The time is
coming when “true believers” in
democracy will have to “stand up
and be counted,” NAACP Chief
Counsel Thurgood Marshall told
500 FEPC supporters here last
week.
Attorney Marshall told his lis
teners that the United States is
fast losing its position as the
world’s “moral leader” to India
and the East because of its slow
progress along the color line, cit
ing the stiff opposition in the
U. S. to social legislation.
Mr. Marshall was the main
speaker at the dinner of the Alle
gheny County (Pittsburgh) Com
mittee on Fair Employment Prac
tices in the William Penn Hotel.
He said that FEPC should not
be approached with the attitude
that it should be passed to make
the United States look good in the
eyes of the world, but should be
passed because it is the “right
thing to do.”
Attorney Marshall emphasized
that he was a “Democrat” but
wished to point out that “Gover
nor Dewey, a Republican, put the
New York State bill through
single-handedly,
He explained that success or
failure of the legislation in the
[Keystone State would depend, to'
a large extent, upon how much
influence the Pennsylvania Gov
ernor, John S. Fine, would exer
cise in behalf of the measure.
However, the speaker con
tinued, “We must convince' him
(Governor Fine) that he is not out
there by himself . . . that he has
our full support.”
Attorney Marshall also as
sesssed the progress made along
the educational battlefront in the
South.
He said that less than three
years after the Supreme Court’s
decision outlawing Jim Crow
against Negro students, more than
1,000 colored students were at
tending universities in eleven
Southern states where they had
previously been barred.
MarshalJ explained, “And dur
ing that time not one untoward
incident has come up. There has
not been one case of ‘riot’ or
‘bloodshed,’ as was predicted.
There are now so many Negroes
in Oklahoma A. and M. and Okla
homa University that if you put
just three or four more in, it
would look like the revival of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
Mr. Marshal] asserted that the
government must be utilized as
the weapon to fight discrimina
tion and if anti-discrimination
ilaws are put into effect, Jim Crqiw
.will be defeated and “don’t let
'anyone tell you different."
.NBC Presents
Brotherhood
Week Programs
NEW YORK CITY — Three
prominent Negroes participated in
radio programs on the National i
Broadcasting Company network
last week in observance of
“Brotherhood Week.” The week
was set aside 25 years ago by the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews.
“Tolerance and Co-operation in
a Democracy” was the timely
subject for a discussion on the
University of Chicago Round
Table, which is broadcast on Sun- |
day afternoons. Presenting their
views were Walter White, Execu
tive Secretary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People; Robert Ming,
professor of law at the Univer
sity of Chicago and member of*
the Illinois Commerce Commission
and T. V. Smith, Maxwell pro
fessor of citizenship and philoso
phy at Syracuse University.
Dr. Percy Julian, noted scientist
and research director of the Glid
den Corporation, joined three
other prominent members of his
profession in a discussion on
“Twentieth Century Scientists*
Speak to the Atomic Age.” Thej
four believe that the world’s
peoples must now either get along
together or be destroyed and each
offered an. opinion and possible
solutions.
The other scientists were Dr.
Harold Urey, Nobel Prize-winning
chemist; Dr. Samuel Alison, di-,
rector of the Nuclean Fission'
Laboratory at the University of
Chicago and Dr. John Rettaliata,
president of the Illinois Institute
of Technology. NBC commentator
Clifton Utley was moderator.
price controls in an orderly man
ner,” said Mr. Winters. “The
President has stated that he will
not ask Congress for an extension
of the price control program
which expires April 3Q.” *, J
Whitney Yaung
Speaks to Group
Work Council
“The Role of Group Work in
Building Better Human Relations”
was the subject of Whitney
Young’s address to the Group
Work Council at the Thursday,
February 19, meeting at the
YWCA.
Mr. Young, Omaha Urban
League executive secretary, said
that group work “by its nature has
a wonderful opportunity to make
democracy meaningful to people
the world over. We can counter
act Communist popaganda by
teaching people that our similari
ties are far greater than any dif
ferences there may be between
peoples.” -~
Mr. Young was introduced by
Mrs. Sara Walker, chairman of
the Group Work Council. The
council is a functional organiza
tion of the Council of Social
Agencies.
Bill Outlaws
Discrimination
Senate Approval Given to
Cemetery Rules
DES tMOINES, la—A bill to
regulate the operations of “per
petual-care” cemeteries and to
prohibit them from discrimination
practices on account of “race,
color or creed,” was passed 44 to 0
by the Iowa Senate Monday, Feb.
16.
The bill now goes to the House.
The bill was drafted to prevent
any recurrence of an incident like
the one at Sioux City where
burial ceremonies for Sgt. John
Rice, a Korean War veteran of
Indian descent, were halted. The
measure also provides that “per
petual-care” cemeteries must post .
a $25,000 cash trust fund to guar
antee the cemetery care before
selling any lots or burial space.
The bill would affect all ceme
tery organizations now established
if they describe themselves