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Vol.20-No.35 ~ _OMAHA, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1947_“S-V aLSff. Sid'.V SSF
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Prohibit U. S.
Negroes Travel
to Panama
WASHINGTON, D. C. — “Appar
ently, the hemispheric solidarity talk
about by the twenty-one American Re
publics in Rio de Janeiro a few weeks
ago means only solidarity between the
non-Negro peoples in the Western
Hemisphere as far as Panama is con
cerned”, Leslie Perry of the Washing
ton Bureau, NAACP, charged in a
letter te Senor J. J. Vallarino, the
Ambassador from Panama. This con
elusion was drawn after the NAACP
learned that Panama has a law pro
hibiting immigration to that country
by American Negroes and stringent
requirements designed to discourage
them even as tourists.
The NAACP had received a com
plaint from a well-known educator
stating that he had been unable to
secure a passage to Panama and
Guatemala this summer because both
of those countries barred American
Negroes. The NAACP took the matter
up with the respective embassies in
Washington.
Ambassador Vallarino in a let'er
to Perry had written:
“Article 17, Law 54, 1938, still in
force, requires that any person of pro
hibited immigration to the Republic
of Panama, should ask the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, through the Pan
amanian Consul at the Port of Em
barkation, permission to visit the
country only for thirty days, and if
granted, the applient must make a
deposit of $500.00 at that Consulate,
to guarantee his return to the
country of origin.”
The Ambassador from Guatemala
has advised the NAACP that he is
making a check of their laws to as
certain what tfiQ Requirements are
with respect to the immigration of
colored Americans.
OXFORD SCHOLAR HE4DS LIST
OF 25 NEW A. and T.
COLLEGE TEACHERS
School Gegins 56th TERM
GREENSBORO, N. C.—The 56*h
school opening program at A. and T.
College last week was marked by the
announcement of the addition of 25
sew teachers and staff member? for
the current school year. These addi
tions bring the total faculty strength
up to 173 members.
Heading the list of newcomers is
Dr. A. K. Nyabongo who will teach
economics and sociology. He holds
both B. A. and M. A. degrees from
Oxford Um>e«sity in England and
received his Ph. D. from Columbia
University. Dr. Nyabongo was asso
ciated with the African Academy of
Arts and Research in New York City
prior to accepting the A. and T. post.
He formerly taught at Alabama
State Teachers College at Montgo
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PERSONNEL POSTS
New appointees to student person
nel postiens at the collage are M*.
Nadine Goodman, B. A. Radcliffe,
dean of women, and Penrose Parks,
M. A., Columbia LTniveiwity, assistant
daan of men. ?v II * ^
Other new faculty members are
James E. Harrison Jr., M. A., Cath
olic L’niversity education; James H.
Reeves, M, A., Boston University,
Engilsh; Alfred C. Tyler, M. A., Col
umbia University, radio and televis
ion; Grainger Browning, M. A., Bos
ton University, sociology; Leadie M.
Clark, M. A., University of Illinois,
English; Howard C. Williams, M. S.,
Ohio State University, Rural econ
omics and sociology.
Kathryn Ward, M. A., Smith Col
lege, music; Dhisybelle Jones, M. S.
W., Atlanta University, English;
Dolores L. Hines, M. S., Wniversity
of Michigan, physical education;
Louise Nixon, B. S., A. and T. math
ematics; Armand Richardson, B. S.,
E. E., University of Pittsburgh, elec
triMl awgiaua lug.
A. and T. College
Registers More
7 han 1000 Frosh
GREENSBORO, N. C. — Freshman
week held recently at A. and T. Col
lege here was highlighted by a series
of orientation teats, lectures and
social affairs for the benefit of some
1,000 first-year students who reported
to the college for the weeks activities
marking the beginning of the school
year.
Upperclassmen as well as Fresh
men were given physical examinations
by a team of 11 seniors from Howard
University Medical School. On hand
to administer the examinations under
the direction of Dr. F. E. Davis, A.
and T. Health director, were James
Swan, Miss Ora Nelson, Ralph Ken
nedy, Ct\llem 'Banks, Leon Banks,
Jesse Baker, Fejiguson Read, Mit
chell Perana, Harold Perry, Samuel
McMath, Mayo Delily. Dr. James
Mitchell interne from Freedman’s
Hospital, Washington, D. C. was in
charge of the group of mecido*.
STUDENT COUNSELORS
Seventeen upperclassmen were
eleoted during the week by student
personnel officials at the college to
serve as counselors _ to Freshmen for
the 1947-48 school term.
These students selected because of
their proven leadership qualities and
initiative, were active throughout the
week’s orientation program.
Junior counselors appointed were
Evelyn Ashe, Cofiejd, N. C.; Eliza
beth Satterwhite, Ahoskie, N. C.;
Pattie Allen, Oxford, N. C-; Frankie
Prince, .Birmingham, Ala.; Mary
Beatiford, Thomasvi^e, Ala.; Doris
DeV'aughn, Red Bank, N. J.; Thelma
Lee, Durham. N. C.; Sue Dell Mc
Calop, Warsaw, N. C.; Ruth Strwud,
Rougemont, N. C-; Queen Jeffries,
Woodsdale, N. C.; Beatrice Banch,
Farmville, Va.; and Joan A. Corbett,
Elmira, N. Y.
SENIOR ADVISORS
Senior Adivsors appointed were
Felecia Payne, Charlottesville, Va.;
Mai James, Fayetteville, N. C.; Loies
Samuels. Winston-Salem, N. C.; Dor
othy Tillman. Charlotte, N. C.; Caro
lyn Bro-wn, Lynchburg, Va.
INFORMAL EDUCATION AND
SPORTS SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS
HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
CaJ W. Morrow and Harold H.
Prugh, aoordinators of the Y.M.C.A.
Informal Education and Sports
School, have announced the instructois
They are as follows: Beginning Photo
graphy, Robert McBain; Advanced
Photography, A1 Blivin; Chess, A1
Ludwig; Portrait Painting, August
Dunbier; Singing, Dr. Noel J. Logan;
Leathercraft, Mrs. M. E. Kendrick:
Public Speaking, Dick McCann;
Salesmanship, Glen Walker, Coordin
ator; Advertising, Jack Anderson;
Conversational Russian, Theodoisie
Scala; Greek, Father Zoys; Citizen
ship, Esther Wred* and Charles San
ders; and Marriage for Moderns, Ker
mil Hanson, coordinator.
Classes included in the Sports Sk-ll
School for Beginners will be: Bad*
minton, H. H. Prugh; Beginning
Ladies Swimming, B. R. Walters;
Beginning Man’s Swimming, Ralph
Leake Jr-; Bowling, George Baker;
Boxing, Jim Buzzello; Diving, Ralph
Leake Jr.; Fencing, Roy Larsen;
Cymnasticg, B.' R. Walters; Hand
Ball, Ed Olson; Judo, Howard Rob
bins; Life Saving, B. R. Walters;
Paddle Tennis, H. H. Prugh; Shuffle
board, H. H. Prugh, Weight Lifting,
Jack West; Wreslting, Lyle Milhone;
and Table Teanis, H. H. Prugh.
Registration week closes on Satur
day, October 4th. Classes will begin
Monday, October 6.
»cye carps worm
To tempt potenfial husbands
many maidens in the Driest, espe
cially in Asia Minor, build up nice
dowries by weaving rugs. With
their earnings .they bur perforated
gold coins, which they wear as
necklaces around their necks so
that a young village buck, at f
glance, can evaluate a ski's worth.
Brotherhood Wins
4 Million Wage
Raise for Porters
In the general offices of the Mi
ma n Company in Chicago, Illinois, In
ternational offieers of the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters, A.
Philip Randolph and Milton P. Web
ster, negotiated and signed a Mem
orandum Agreement with tl^e Man
agement of the Pullman Company
for a wage increase of 1614 cents
an hour or $37.20 a month.
The Brotharhood has also signed
agreements granting 1514 cents an
hour for porters^on the Union Paci
fic; Western Pacific; Gulf, Mobile
and Ohio; the Alton; Milwaukee, St.
Paul and facific; Illinois Central;
Baltimore and Ohio; Chesapeake
sqid Ohio; Burlington Lines; and
Southern Pacific.
“In the next week or two, the
BSCP will have completed negotiat
ing and signing agreements with the
balance of the forty or more rail
roads with which it has agreements,”
stated A. Philip Randolph, Interna
tional President, at the Brotherhood’s
Mid-Western headquarters in Chicago
today
NAACP Files
Petition Against
Oklahoma Uni.
NEW YORK — On Septemb* 22.
f'947, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People at
torneys, Amos T. Hall of Tulsa, Okla.,
Thurgood Marshall and Robert L.
Carter of national legal staff filed
a petition for a writ in the Sapreme
Court of the United States in the
case of Sipuel v. the University of
Oklahoma. In this oesa, Lois Sipuel
is attempting to secure admission to
the law school of the University of
Oklahoma by writ of mandamus.
There ■ no other state-supported law
school in Oklahoma except that at the
state university. The petition foT
egalst aff.fwi.n llnaatonju ►—H x
of certiorari seeks to have the Su
preme Court grant certiorari am! re
verse without argument or hearing
the decision of the state court deny
ing her application for writ of man
damus on the bans of the Supreme
Court’s decision in die Gaines case.
This is one of a series of cases the
NAACP is handling involving an at
tempt to secure equal educational op
portunities for Negroes. Other cases
are pending in Texas, Louisiana and
South Carolina.
MARRIAGE FOR MODERNS
New to Omaha this year is the eight,
week course “Marriage for Moderns’’
which begins on October 8 at the
Omaha Y. M. C. A.
Kermit Hansesi will act as coordin
ator of the following lectures:
October8 Mrs. Mary Frederick-Home
Making Department of the
Board of Education Lecture N.
1. Facts and Fiction About
Roance.
October 15 Mrs. Mary Frederick
Lecture No. 11. Untying Mother’
Apron Strings
October 22 Mrs. Mary Frederick
Lecture No. 111. Living and
Growing Together
October 29 Mrs. Jack Gardner
Home Making Department of
the Board of Education
Lecture No. IV. The three
“Bs” of Marriage — Budget,
Bills, and Banking
November 5 Dr. Charles Tompkins
Pediatrician Lecture No. V.
Children—The Most Important
Aspect of Marriage
November 12 Dr. Leon McCoogan
Obstetrics
November 19 Lecture No. VI and
VI1. The Doctor Speaks
November 26 Rabbi Silverman—
Temple Isreal
Lecture No. Vlll. The Family
Live* its Religion
The Marriage for Moderns class i«
co-sponsored by the the Adnlt Edu
cation Department of the Board of
Education, the Y. M. C. A., and the
Y. W. C. A. The fee is $1.00.
Community Chest
Plans Campaign
Newly appointed division chairmen
for the Omaha Community Chest
drive October 19 to November 6 were
the guests of General Chairman Ed.
ward G. Hinton at a meeting Monday
even mg to perfect plans for the cam
paign.
Meeting with the gaoup were the
division chairmen of last year’s cam
paign and Harold D. LeMar, who
was their general chairman. Others
present included Edgar M. Morsman,
3d, ^Chest president, and Thomas “Top
per Teal, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence W. Teal, 5620 Western ave.
The occasion marked “Topper’s”
initial appearance in the traditional
Robbinhood costume. He will carry
the role of tUe Red Feather Lad as
a Chest symbol during the campaign
and will appear at various programs
and report meetings.
Applauds Bishop
On Anti-Jim Crow
NEW YORK — Walter W'hite, ex
ecutive secretary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, today congratulated
Archbishop Joseph EL Ritter of St.
Louis on his recent stand against St.
Louis Catholics who protested the ad
mission of Negro children into Ro
man Catholic schools with white child
ren. In a widely publicized battle
during which the group threatened to
bar the Negro children by civil action
against the Bishop, the head of the
Archdiocese of St. Louis threatened
them with excommunication if they
persisted in their efforts. John P. Bar
rett, chairman of the anti-Negro group
has since stated that attorneys had
advised him that since the Archbishop
is titular head of the parish schools,
“nothing could legally be done about
what he chooses to do with them.”
Mr. Wh$e in his message to Arch
bishop Ritter declared: “May I on
behalf of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
express ow congratulations to you on
the unequivocal position lyou took
against those parents who would un
doubtedly have far-reaching and ben
eficial effect not only upon Catholic
but all people who believe or should
believe in the Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of Man.
HITS N. Y. BANNING OF
DEEP ARE THE ROOTS
ALBANY, N. Y., - Neile F. Tow.
ner, President of the Albany, New
York, Board of Education, was urged
to reconsider the recent action of the
board refusing the use of a high school
auditorium for a performance of
“Deep Are The Roots! Walter White,
NAACP head expressed alarm over
the banning of the play which enjoy
ed a highly successful run on Broad
way. v
jMr. White, in a telegram to the
Board of Education official stated:
‘The National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People respect
fully but most vigorously urges re
consfdeiation of refusal of use of
high school auditorium for produc
tion of ‘Deep Are The Roots’. If demo
cracy s to survive in the present war
tom world, it will be due solely to
ability of democratic government like
ours to face its defects and correct
them. ‘Deep Are The Roots’ is one
of the most forthright presentations
of the menace of racial bigotry ever
produced on America’s stage.
L. McVay And
W. Ray Crowned
At St. John’s
A Overflowng Audience Gatht* at
St. John’s To Witness colorful Annual
King Solomon Wedding
Amici' the s^ttndor W beautiful
princesses, ladies in waiting, etc. Mr.
L. L. McVey a promient ettizen of
Omaha in civic and religious life of
the city for a number of years came
to the throne with vision and wisdom
show by his choice of a most worthy
queen, out of a most of princesses
that were contenting for his favor,
Mrs. Wila Ray who filled his coffin
•verflowing with silver.
Mrs. Wila Ray is the wife of the
late Mr. Geo. Ray, and she is one
of the most if not the most faitiiful
and loyal members and workers of the
St. John's church and her acceptance
as the Kings favorite was widly &p
provaled by those that packed the
church to see this beautiful and
breathtaking pagent. Mrs. Ray can
be found during good wherever it is
needed giving of here service without
reserve. She is truly and angel of good
eeher and sunshine to all that knew
her.
PrPincesses vieing for the favor of
the King beside Mrs. Ray^ but jjus! j
didn’t have enough silver to present
him mto satisfy his soul ’were as fol
low*; Ludella Young, Ella Mae Lewis
Berine J. Childress, Anna Vanfoote,
and Marie Elkins.
Mrs. Irene Morten of Zion Baptist
church sang “Because" and Mrs. Ven
us Staring “O! Promise Me".
3Irs. Cloma Scott was Mistress of
Cermonies.
Mrs. R. C. Price is the president of
th& Ever-Ready Club of St. John's
church that presented the King Solom
on Wedding with all its splendor and
finish.
NAACP SAVES GI
FROM HANGMAN
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People was notified
by the War Department today that
one more Negr* GI, sentenced to be
executed by an army courts-martial,
would be spared his date with the
hangman as a direct result of inter
vention by the Association’s legal de
partment. The condemned soldier.
Pvt. L. Z. Henderson, had been sen
tenced to be hanged for an alleged
murder committed in Viernheim, Ger
many in 1946.
NAACP attorneys had demanded a
War Department re#w of the case
following a request for assistance from
the Interdenominational Ministerial
Alliance of San Antoio, Texas. As a
result of NAACP intervention, the
War Department subpected the 26
year-old GI who had served in the
army since 1942 to a psyehiatric ex
amination which proved that Hender
son had been mentally irresponsble at ,
the tme of the alleged crime. The |
death sentence was then set aside, j
HISTORY OF NAACP
IN ALL BOOKSHOPS
NEW YORK,—The NAACP pifolic
relations department today announaed
that the number of financial contri
butiojis to the Association had shown
a marked increase following publi
cation of Mary White Ovington’g
book ‘The Walls Came Tumbling
Down”, which was published recently
by Harcourt, Brace and Company. Al
though the author made no appeal in
her timely history of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, ihe contributions receiv
eajvere trom all parts of the country. I
The Walls Came Tumbling Down”l
is a personal narrative of the Associa- j
lion's achievements, and of the stead
fast courage of its members in the,
face of threats of physical violence)
and character assassination from the
days when the ‘‘lynching map” at
NAACP heedpuarters was dark with
| telltale pins, until the present time
when the walls of prejudge and big
C. M. Mitchell Cites failure
To Pass Needed Legislation
For Benefit of All People
IMES, WRIGHT STRESS
INDIVIDUAL’S RESPONIBILITY
IN HAMPTON CONVOCATION
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va. -f
Hampton’s fall convocation speaker,
Dr. William Lloyd Imes. and its Dean
of Factulty, Dr. Stephen I. Wright,
stressed two aspects of individual re
sponsibility as they addressed Ham
pton's largest student body in history
in exercises last week opening the
80th year of the institution.
Dr. Wright challenged students to
accep the responsibility of education
themselves. “No teacher or teachers
can give you a real education,” he
said. “There are no substitutes for
thoroughness, mastery, perserverance,
and constant critical self-evaluation.’
Dr. Imes, declared the responsibility
of the Negro race and all other races
to seek “true freedom under God's
guiding hand in history.”
The former president of Knoxville
College identified “real freetffftn” as I
“freedom from oneself” and “the free- I
dom of mind and heart which Samuel
Chapman Armstrong, Hampton’s
founder; Booker T. Washington, Lin
coln and Douglass, Harriet Stowe and
Lucy Laney, and hosts of other un
selfish and gifted souls made their
imperishable and glorious ideal.”
Referring to the elventh chapter of
Hebrews, Dr. Imes admonished his
hearers: “God has provided ’some
better thing’ for us, but he will not
grant it to us without our adventure
of faith in ourday.evenasourfounding
fathers and mothers dared to be
come heroes and heroines of faith.”
President Ralph P. Bridgman; Dr
Edward R. Miller, acting chaplain;
Charles H. Flax, song leader; and
Ernest Hayes, organist, were others
taking part in the program. The con
vocation was held at Hampton’s new
twice-a-week 10:45 a. m. assembly
hour.
Hampton Rolls
At New^High
HAMITON INSTITUTE, Va.—
Enrollenment at Hampton Institute
this fall has climbed to a new all
time high, surpassing the record set
in the second eemester of last year,
preliminary figures furnished by the
registrar’s office indicate. The 1947
figure of 1688 students is 65 aLove
last year’s mark.
Tentative breakdown figures show
1109 men—778, or more than two
thirds of them, veterans—and 579 wo
men, eight of them veterans. A final,
official census will be completed on
Oetober 15.
Of 502 new students, 104 were
freshmen non-veterans.
To handle this load, President Ralph
P. Bridgman says. Hampton has 160
educational staff members: 135 tea
chers, six library staff members, and
19 personnel staff workers (aside
from nurses). Thus there is approxi
mately one educational staff member
to every 10 students and approximate
ly one teacher to every 13 students.
There are 32 new educational staff
members, 21 of them' replacements.
This does not include several continu
ing staff n embers who this year art
beginning to teach part-time.
aNmes of seven new staff mem
bers in the Division of General Stud
ies—6 of them replacements — were
announcad last week, and names of
other new staff members are to be
announce*! shortly.
Time Savers
At least four hours a week can be
saved by an ironer In the average
family. A saving of several hours
can be accomplished by the washer.
The total gain from the two amounts
to several weeks a year.
I GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., — Flay
ing the Eightieth Congress for its fail
ure to pass needed legislation. Clar
ence M. Mitchell, NAACP labor sec
retary, told the Catholic Tri-Slate
Conference meeting here that, as far
as the welfare of the people is con
cerned, \this last Congress might just
as well never have been in session.
Mr. Mitchell declased that Ae only
people who benefited from Congress
ional consideration of FEPC legis
lation in 1947 were those railroads
(which collected fares from persons
who went to Washington to testify,
and undohutedly, endeared himself lo
his supporters by claiming credit for
blocking passage of the act.
The labor secretary pointed out
that, beside ignoring the FEPC Bill,
Congress failed to broaden the Social
Security Act for the coverage of dom
estic and agricultural workers, neatly
pigeon-holed bills to raise the min
imum wage level to more nearly meet
the present cost of living, and,
through the Taft-Hartley Bill, shack
led the American labor movement by
preventing its leaders from political
action defeat the worst Congressional
offenders at the polls.
“The Congress further cut approp
riations of the Wage and Hour Ad
ministration —thereby decreasing the
staff of the agency at a time wheu 51
per cent of the establishments being
investogated are found to be violat
ing the law and more than 118,000
is being illegally withheld from over
300,000 underpaid employees,” Mr.
Mitchell said.
“There is need for year-round pol
itical education so that only those
persons whose total record is good
will have an opportunity to get elect
ed. We must mobilize the right-think
ing people in a national drive which
will write the badly needed social re
form into our law,” the labor secre
tary concluded.
The conference, called by the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
was attended by 3.000 delegates. Mr.
Philip Murray, President of the CIO,
Dr. George Shuster, President of
Hunter College, New York City, and
His Eminence Edward Cardinal Moo
ney, the Archibishop of Detroit, also
spoke.
SEPIA A WEST COAST MAGAZINE
RESUMES PUBLICATION
Sepia Hollywood Magazine result
ed publication with the October 1st
edition, afttr many months of careful
planning land shall we say not a lew
headaches suffered by the editor, Lil
lian Cumber) in an endeavor to give
you not only the best in writing but
an exclusive array of picture* that teB
stories in a tasteful and dignified
manner.
Of parteular nt#r<4st is the fact
that the magazine still maintains its
features on show folks, but many new
pictorial features have been added that
will cover the interests of a larger
group or readers—Sepia Homes ia
Hollywood, Parties, Sports, Religion,
etc. Especially is attention called to
the article and pictures on “Religion
in Hollywood”. This issue of the pub
lication has focused the spotlight oa
“St. Paul Baptist Church” andl its
“Echoes of Eden Choir,” which is
gaining intersationay interest through
out the country via radio and rivals
is gaining internvbg vb vbgfb vbgbnS
the “Wings Over Jordan Choir”.
Bl-Camaral Congress
Under its constitution, Chile bag
a bi-cameral congress elected di
rectly by the people, as Is the presi
dent. The latter has somewhat tha
same power as the president of tha
United States.
Listen to “ALL STAR WESTERN THEATRE
STATION WOW, 6:30 P. M. EACH THURSDAY.
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