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Xpi—James E. Scott of Washing
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here last week. With more than
200 members of the fraternity
present to enjoy the unbounded
hospitality with which Kansas
City greeted its guests, the Kap
pas, the Alphas and the AKA’s
verbal expressions indicated the
belief that this was one of the best
conventions the fraternity has ev
er h«id.
Kappa men were particularly
active in the arrangements for the
entertainment of the three Greek
letter societies which held their
boutes here this Christmas time,
and which all of the visitors vot
ed as unsurpassed in their conven
tion experience. The huge Kan
sas City Municipal auditorium,
with its perfect appointments for
large meetings, had been turned
over to the Greeks for the week.
As a visitor entered the lobby, a
urge information booth with half
a dozen young women on duty was
ready to serve. Elevators fully
staffed were ready to whisk mem
bers of the various fraternities to
^ho floors where their headquart
ers were or where meetings were
scheduled.
Alpha Kappa Alpha occupied
the fourth floor, while Alpha Phi
Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi shar
ed the fifth floor. Auditoriums
for meetings, offices, switchboard
facilities, lunch room, every'hing
a frater could wish for was on tap
for the visiting fraternal folk.
Outside the gathering place( hos
pitality was truly at its zeni'h.
Kansas City noted as one of the
most active social centers in the
country at Yuletide, had opened its
arms even wider than usual. Only
miracle man could have kept 1 p
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social calendar. Open house was
the rule, the Kappa hosts holding
four in the two Kansas Cities.
Lionel F. Artis of Indianapolis,
where he is manager of excellent
ly conducted low-cost housing pro
ject in that city vvas the recipient
of the Kappa laurel wreath this
year. The presentation of the
laurel wreath, the highest award
in the fraternity t was made by
Grand Polemarch James E- Scott,
lacking on were two former recip
ients of the award. Judge Armand
Scott of Washington and Atty. J.
Ernest Wilkins of Chicago as were
four past grand polemarchs: W.
EUis Stewart, Earl B. Dickerson
and Theophilus Miann of Chicago
and J Jerome Peters of Tuskegee.
Attorney Scott was reelected
Kappa polemarch for his third
term at the final session of the
conclave Tuesday night, Dec. 31.
Other officers elected were Louie
Orr, St .Louis, senior vice grand
polemarch; Orville Jonest Univers
ity of Nebraska, junior vice grand
polemarch; J Ernest Wilkins, Chi
cago, grand keeper of records and
exchequer; Donald L. Hollowc-Il,
Lane college, Jackson, Tenn.,
grand strategusl J. Emas Escoe,
University of Kansas, grand lieut
enant strategus; Girard T. Bryant
Kansas City, grand historian
Memberg of the board of direc
tors in addition to the officers, are
Gioster Current, West Virginia
State college.. James Anderson,
Wichita, and Victor Hiekers, De
troit.
AKA’S HOLD LARGEST
BOULE
KANSAS QITY) Mo., Jan. G (A
NP)—More than 500 members of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
registered during the 23rd annual
boule of that organization, hold at
the municipal auditorium here
Christmas week, to roll up what is
perhaps the largest attendance
record any feminine Greek letter
organization of color has ever en
joyed. I^ed by Dr- Dorothy Bould
ing Ferebee of Washington, grand
basileus, the women came from 25
states, molding their public pres
entations and many of their social
features with their brother Alpha
Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi
fraternities who met in the same
city, at the same time and in the
same building.
Out of the gatherings, separate
yet combined in some respects
through the effective functioning
of a co-ordinating committee> grew
an opportunity for the comparison
of programs and the suggestions
for cooperation where aims were
similar or overlapping.
The meetings were held in the
auditorium where ample and lux
urious offices were assigned to
each of the combinations on differ
ent floors and with every conceiv
able service available. The danc
es, open and closed! the public
meeting which was a combined af
fair w4th the heads of all three or
ganizations speaking, were each
centered in the same huge struct
ure.
The Alpha Kappa Alpha meet
ing beginning on Friday, Dec. 27,
ended with the annual .banquet,
Monday night> Dec. 30. The panel ]
discussion^, revolving around the
two national projects being con
ducted by the sorority, the Missi
ssippi Health project and the Non
Partisan Council on Public Affairs
the lobbying group supported at
Washington, were held on Satur
day. Both ventures were continu
ed, the AKA'S who are the weal
thiest Greek letter organization
within the race, voting $G,500 for
the two projects.
During the health panel, the
speakers were: Dr. Mary C.
Wrightt Boston; Ruth Scott, Phila
delphia; Ella V. Payne, Washing
ton; Marian Garter, St. Louis and
Wilhelmina Crosson, interloctor
Estelle Massey Riddle of St. Louis
summarized the discussion. A
total of $2,500 was voted for the
health work in Mississippi now in
its seventh year.
During the panel on the slightly
controversial lobby project which
last year maintained Miss Thom
asina Johnson of Boston in Wash
ington, to watch and report upon
legislation, particularly where it
was inimical or of advantage to
the race, were Pauline Redmond,
Miss Johnson, the lobbyist, Norma
Boyd of Washington, director of
the project; Louise J- MacDonald
of Ntw York; Beulah Whitby of
Detroit; Jeanetta Welch and Byrd
Jackson of Kansas City, Kuns. The
lobby group won $4,000 for its
budget thifi year, an increase of
$3,000 over last year.
Highlights of the meeting were
the banquet held at the new Sum
ner High school Kansas City, Kan
sas., Monday night and the Artist
recital held Saturday night. The
latter, presented in the lavishly
decorated Power and Light build
ing auditorium brought out a large
group from all the covening organ
izations as well as from Kansas
City. AKA artists for the occas
ion were (Etta Moten, mezzo-sop
rano and Doris Reita Novel, pian
ist; for Alpha Phi Alpha, Nichol
as Gerrin, violinist and Lorenzo
Fuller bass; for Kappa, William
Alfred Daughterty, violinist and
Sidney Dawson, basso. Gewrge
Pierson and Ethel Love were the
accompanists.
All of the nationa olfficers were
present at the boule, those who
will serve next year being: Doro
thy Boulding Ferebee, supreme
basiletis; Beaulah Whitby, Detroit
'‘irst vice-president; Rosetta E.
Mdan, Kansas Citv, second vice,
p.esidcnt; Irma F. Clarke, Chicago
secretary; Trusie Smothers, Kan
ses City,co rrespondiug secretary
Ethel Hedgeman Lyl' ol‘ Philadel
phia, honorary president and treas
u.< r; Edna Over G'ay, assistant
treasurer; Laura Fife Lovelace,
Cincinnati, parliamentarian. Re
gional directors: Dr Mary Wright
..s<on, North Atlantic; Marguerite
Adams( Charlotte, \. C., South
Atlantic. Manila Hickmai:, Tulsa,
mid-western; Juanita Davis, Great
Lakes; Blanche Patterson, St. Lou
ii. Central, Essie L. Tucker, San
fi Monica, Calif., Far Western
r.nd Olivette Jones Morgan, Gal
viston, South Central, The soror
ity will be entertained by the three
"Yapters in Philadelphia in Hill.
NEGRO STILL TEST OF DEMO
CRACY. DECLARES ANNUAL
NAACP. REPORT
(continued from page 1)
to show us all that he has learned
from this American crime, befor.
taking action to curb it. ‘‘One of
the most shameful pages in ottr
Congressional history was enact
ed,’' he said, “when Congressional
leaders, with the tacit approval of
the White House, dodged the is
sue of bringing the bill up time af
ter time, despite the many pro
tests made, by the association.
First they gave the old stand-by
reason that Congress had to ad
journ. When it became obvious
that Congress was not going to
adjourn because of the crucial
state of world affairs, then 'he.v
laid National Dtfense legislation
oad to b. got out of the way first
The final blow which broke down ,
their whole argument was the ex
tension of the 76th session of Con
gress, the longest in our country’s
history, 367 days, up until the
very opening of the 77th session
on January 3.’’
During this period the Associi
tion was the first to report the ad
option of a new technique adopt
ed by vigilante mobs for covering
up lynchings. The NAACP. made
public a report by one of its in
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vestigators, ‘‘Lynching Goes Un
derground.”
Mr. White cited the lynching of
Elijah Williams, in Brownsville,
Tennessee, as the most flagrant
lynching of the year, pointing out
the connection between this lynch
ing and the desire on the part of
Southern poll tax states to keep
millions of Negroes and whites
from voting.
Jim Crow in Defense
Then in rapid succession he list
ed the White House announcement
establishing officially the policy of
segregating the Negro in the
country’s armed forces; the!
Burke- Wadsworth Conscription
bill, with its loopholes permitting'
the Army and Navy to continue
Jim Crow as their usual policy,*
the barring of Negroes from jobs
in industries having billions of dol
lars in Government defense con
tracts, the continued discriminat
ion against the Negro in organized
labor, notably the American Fed
eration of Labor, which clinched
its discrimination policy by refus
ing to pass a single anti-discrim
ination measure, at its convention
in New Orleans; the operation of
the draft law in many states where
Negroes are denied posts on the
draft boards, the calling up of only
white draftees for January induc
tion into the army, a policy that
has just recently been revised by
Government order in the district
of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and,
Maryland; and the failure of the
National Defense Program to in
clude Negro youth in defense
training schools for jobs in indus
try; the failure of the Dies Com
mittee to conduct a single invest
igation into the subversive activ
ities of groups like the Ku Klux
Klan, the Silver Shirts, the Black
Legion and other vigilante groups
who have counted Negroes among
their most numerous victims.
Reports were also read at the
meeting from the heads of depart
ments including Legal Defense, as
sociation branch work, the Crisis
magazine, organ of the associat
ion youth work, and publicity.
Vacancies on the association’s na
tional board were filled with the
election of four new directors at
he meeting.
DOROTHY MAYNOR TELLS
OWN STORY
New Y'ork, N. Y. Jan. 7—In a
special article in the current True
Story Magazine titled ‘She Shall
Make Music”, Dorothy Maynor
whose magnificent voice thrills
thousands, tells her own story
Daughter of a Methodist minis
ter in Norfolk, Virginai, she at
tended Hampton Institute where
she planned to teach domestic arts
As a student there she joined the
Hampton Choir and toured with
the group between studies.
Upon her return from Europe
with the Choir she changed her
school study course and entered
the music department, still with
the idea of teaching.
A friend persuaded her to study
in New York and there she turned
to the concert stage where she
rapidly came to the attention of
conductors and critics.
Her deep faith in religion is the
source of her courage and the in
spiration of her music says the
singer.
SHORTAGE OF SKILLED
WORKERS REVEALED
(Continued from pag; 1)
to secure needed machinery or
raw materials.
To stem the excessive migration
of labor, Mr. McNutt strongly urg
es all workers to check with the
local state employment office in
their own communiti:s before
leaving home in search of work.
Despite the efforts of the U- S.
Employment service to discourage
needless migration, news of def
ense projects and rumors of job
opportunities have drawn thous
.tus of workers to industrial cen
ters and sites of construction pro
jects. Qualified workers have had
to be recruited from outside local
's >n some of these projects, but
Mr. McNutt points out many of
these migrant workers do not have
the skills required. As a result,
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425 SORORS AT BANQUET
Kansas City, Kans., Jan. 6 (AN
P)—The cafeteria of the new Sum
ner High school was filled to over
flowing when 425 Alpha Kappa
Alpha sorors were seated for their
23rd annual formal banquet. The
north and south walls of the room
were decorated with a huge gold
plated latieed heart, intertwnied
with roses and ivy. On each table
was a gold metal heart-shaped
stand from which sprays of roses
and ivy spread dow/n the center of
the table. Prgo rams and place
cards were gold, and each soror re
th«y remain unemployed and their
families homeless. Where there
has been prior clearance of job
prospects and labor requirements
with local public employment of
fices, he said, such unfortunate
situations have been avoided
An increasing number of em
ployers are reported to be hiring
skilled workers who are not pres
ently neededf in order to make cer
tain of having them when the need
arises. Even in the semi-skilled
and unskilled occupations, the us
ual large excess of applicants over
jobs is rapidly being reduced. In
this connection, reports from all
parts of the country indicate that
domestic help and farm hands are
leaving their usual employment to
take unskilled jobs in factories
and construction work.
As a further means of coping
with the problem of limited sup
plies of skilled labor, employers
are hiring semi-skilled workers for
training on the job; are using
workers in related occupations
wherever possible and are break
ing down skilled operations into
several less skilled steps with a
system of training and upgrading
as workers acquire experience.
OMAHA HOLDS ITS OWN
Baltimore Takes Seventh Place
from St. Louis
Rankings of the major cities
changed little under the 1940 cen
sus. the census bureau said today.
The first 10 cities were:
New York, 7,454,995,
Chicago, 3,396,808,
Philadelphia, 1,941,334,
Detroit, 1,623,452,
Los Angeles, 1,504,277
Cleveland, 878,336,
Baltimore, 859,100,
St. Louisf 816,048,
Boston, ’ 770,816,
Pittsburgh, 671,659.
These were the same 10 cities at
the top of the list in the 1930 cen
sus, and the rankings were the
same except that in the decade,
Baltimore took seventh place a
way from St. Louis.
Listing all cities of 100 thous
and population or moret the bur
eau noted that there were 92 of
them, one less than 10 years ago
Washington, D .C. had the big
gest gain, 36.2 percent.
Omaha, with a population of
223,844, ranked thirty-ninth jus1
below Akron and above Dayton
It held the same ranking in 1930
but lost 4.6 percent in population
during the decade.
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given telphone pads with a gold
filigree back bearing the AKA.
emblem.
The banquet program was open
ed with grace by Mrs. Ida J. Wood
retired Kansas City School teach
er. Ercelle Dandridge led the
group in sorority sings, accomp
anied at the piano by Diantha Rey
nolds of Topeka. Mrs. Dorothy
H. Davis ,who was mistress of cer
emonies, presented the supreme
basileus Dr. Ferebee( with an or
chid corsage. On behalf of the
hostess chapters, she presented
tokens of appreciation to Etta G.
Moten and Doris R. Novel for ap
pearing in the artists recital.
Miss Delores EUis of Kansas
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dance number, “Spirit of Alpha
Kappa Alpha”, accompanied at the
piano by Doris R- Novel.
Miss Wilhelmina H. Alexander
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Four members of the Ivy Leaf
Club of Upsilon chapter in Topeka
presented a humorous musical
skit.
L. Pearl Mitchell of Cleveland,
past supreme basileus who has at
tended every boule, installed the
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