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VoL 29 No. 39 Friday, November 25, 1955 10c Per Copy
Italian Boys Town Head Is Honored
New York — Manhattan Bor
ough President Hulan E. Jack
(center) presents Monsignor John
Patrick Carroll-Abbing, founder
and President of Boys Towns of
Italy, the American Public Rela
tions Association Annual Award
for Outstanding Achievement, j
James L. Macwithey, (left) Presi
dent of the American Public Re-i
lations Association and Director
of Public Relations for Bristol-;
Myers Co. looks on.
Father Divine
Causes Return
Of Loot
New York — After 11 years, a
one-time maintenance man return
ed $100 worth of stolen goods to
his former employer giving the
primary reason for his good deed
as the teaching of Father Divine.
The stolen goods included odds
and ends like a collection of locks.!
keys, small tools, hinges, kite
ware plus a $10 money order
which was added “for missing
items.”
A letter to the employer A. M.
Perlman, a restaurant and textile
merchant, read as follows: “Just |
a line to let you know that the
good Father Divine is in the land
in person. I worked for you in
the past and stole some goods.
As I want to go straight and live
in peace with God, I am returning
the stolen goods to you.
"Some I haven’t got anymore,:
so I am sending you $10 for the'
missing items. I thank you.
Please forgive me from stealing
from you. All the credit and
honor and glory goes to Father
Divine. God bless you.”
The repentant ex-employee was
recalled by Perlman as being
about 60 years old then and earn-;
ing $60 a week. Happy over re-!
ceiving the goods, Perlman admit
ted: “I never knew it had been
stolen.”
Omaha Chamber After
Professional Baseball Meet
Omaha’s bid for the 1956 meet
ing of the National Association
of Professional Baseball Leagues
will be pushed next week by O
maha President A. V. Sorensen
and Norman Haried, manager
of the Chamber’s Convention
Bureau.
They will make the presenta
tion to Association officials meet
ing then in Columbus, Ohio.
The first hurdle for cfmaha
was passed recently when the
Association waived a requirement
that the host city have at least
400 hotel rooms under one roof
for delegates. The Omaha situa
tion—which offers even more
rooms, but in separate hotels
centrally located—was accepted
as entirely satisfactory.
The Omaha invitation is for
the December meeting of the As
sociation next year. The five
day national conference attracts
between 1,400 and 1,500 baseball
representatives from all over the
nation.
Mr. Haried said competition
for the convention is expected
from both New Orleans and San
Francisco.
Best Seller
Reaches
Screen
“Good Morning Miss Dove,”
Frances Gray Patton’s novel a
bout a stern schoolmarm in a
small New England town, who
influenced the lives of a genera
tion of townspeople, has been
translated into a heart-warming
motion pictme. Jennifer Jones
stars in the title role with Robert
Stark as her co-star in tnis Cin
emascope Deluxe color produc
tion which opened Wednesday at
the State Theatre.
In her characteraziatin of this
remarkable schoolteacher, Jenni
fer Jones displays the versatility
that has kept her in the top rank
of Hollywood stars. In the course
of the picture’s many flashback
scenes she plays Miss Dove at the
age of 20, 35, 45, and 50. Her
portrayal of the “terrible Miss
Dove” already has been hailed
as worthy for an Academy Award
for the year’s best actress.
James Banks
Mr. James Banks, 67 years,
3509 Burdette Street, passed a
way Sunday, November 20th.
Mr. Banks had been a resident of
Omaha forty years and was a re
tired Cudahy Packing Plant em
ployee.
He is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Alice Stewart, Mrs. Matilda
Robbins, Mrs. Gertrude B. Lucas,
of Omaha, two brothers, Mr. Louis
Banks, Dead wood, S. D., Mr. Stan
ley Banks, Los Angeles, Calif,
uncle Mr. Albert Banks, Omaha
and other relatives.
Funeral services were at two
o’clock Friday, November 25th
from St. John’s AME Church with
the Rev. S. H. Lewis officiating.
Interment was in the family
plot at Graceland Park Cemetery
with arrangements by Thomas
Mortuary.
Charles Sims
Mr. Charles Sims, 48 years, 2102
Maple Street, expired unexpected
ly Thursday morning, November
17th. Mr. Sims had been a resi
dent of Omaha twenty-five years
and was a member of Salem Bap
tist Church. He is survived by a
son, Gordon Sims, Omaha and
other relatives. The body is at
Thomas Mortuary.
Bessie May Lewis
Mrs. Bessie May Lewis, 73
years, 2927 North 28th Street,
passed away Friday, November
18th at a local hospital. Mrs.
Lewis had been a resident of O
maha sixty years and was a mem
ber of St. John’s AME Church.
She is survived by one sister
Mrs. Lora M. Carter, Chicago.
Illinois, three nieces, Mrs. Con
stance Johnson, Mrs. Fredericka
Hall, of Omaha, Mrs. Mildred
Scates, Chicago, Illinois, five great
great nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon November 22
from Thomas Mortuary with the
Rev. S. H. Lewis officiating.
Pall bearers were Mr. Hubert
Glover, Carl Daniels, Joe Drake,
George Bryant, Simon Harold and
Charles Williamson.
Interment was in the family
plot at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
New York — Clare Booth Luce,
U. S. Ambassador to Italy, on
Nov. 15th hailed Monsignor John
Patrick Carroll-Abbing, founder
of the Boys’ Town of Italy, as
“one of the great figures of our
day” in a message to the Ameri
can Public Relations Association.
The APRA Annual Award for
Outstanding Humanitarian A
chievement was conferred on
Monsignor Carroll-Abbing, at a
luncheon at the Midston House.
“This man,” said Mrs. Luce,
“has saved lives by the score, has
givn shelter, opportunity in life to
hundreds of thousands of child
ren.”
“When it is remembered” she
continued, “that in the same year
in which the great Boys’ Town
operation began, in 1945, he also
served on a pontifical relief com
mission, that he founded an in
stitute for the study, diagnosis
and cure of pernicious anemia,
that he founded a dispensary for
diabetics, that he set up centers
in two cities for children with
vitamin deficiencies, that he car
ried out a relief plan for thirty
thousand sufferers from malaria .
. . . some conception is gained of
the scope of his endeavors.”
“Rarely is it possible,” Ambas
sador Luce concluded, “so un
stintingly to give merited praise
to any person as to this Eire-born
churchman, this servant of God
who has become the great bene
factor of the youth of Italy.”
Borough President Hulan E.
Jack made the presentation of the
APRA Citation of Honor to Mon
signor Carroll-Abbing, on the
tenth anniversary of the founda
tion of the first Boys’ Town of
Italy. Today, Boys’ Towns of
Italy consists of nine citizen re
publics with more than 2400
youngsters.
Messages from Governor Aver
ell Harriman, Mayor Robert F.
Wagner, Father Nicholas H. Weg
ner, Director of Father Flanagan’s
Boys’ Home, Omaha, Nebraska
and many others were read laud
ing Monsignor Carroll-Abbing for
his outstanding work.
Two Native
Omahan's Marry
Miss Charleszene Davis, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Davis, and Mr. Richard Arti
son, were united in holy matri
mony by Rev. Ridley, November
22nd 1955.
Mr. Artison is stationed in the
army in Maryland.
Mr. Pittman Foxall, the son of
Collins Foxall was the best man.
Miss Olline Foxall, the daugh
ter of Mr. Pittman Foxall, the
detective, was the bridesmaid.
Wheeling Knights
To Face
Tough One
The Omaha Wheeling Knights
open their Wheelchair Basket
ball season at Creigton Gym,
December 7, 1955 at 8:15 against
the Sioux City Wheelers. The
Wheelers will be featuring Bill
Fife former University of Illinois
star. The Wheelers are out to
revenge an earlier defeat at the
hands of the Knights.
The prices are $1.00 for adults
and 50 cents for students.
Mental Illnesses Will Be
Studied By New Commission
This week marks the beginning
of the first nationwide study of
our most serious health problem,
Senator Roman H r uska (R.
Nebr,) said today.
He said the Joint Commission
on Mental Illness and Health,
authorized by the 84th Congress,
will hold its first official meeting
in Washington on October 8th.
The Commission was set up by
the Mental Health Study Act cif
1955, passed by Congress July
28th without a single dissenting
vote.
The Act authorizes the Com
mission to spend $1,250,000 over
a three-year period, Hruska, said,
to make an "analysis and re
evaluation t>{ the human and ec
onomic problems of mental ill
ness.”
Senator Hruska said it is heart
ening to see the enthusiastic co
operation promised the Co minis
sion by all organizations especi*
ally concerned with the mentally
ill. Taking part in the Commis
sion are the American Medical
Association, American Hospital
Association, National Association
for Mental Healt^i, American Bar
Association, National Rehabilita
tion, U. S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, Veterans
Administration and others. Full
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cooperation was promished by
the Governors Conference in Chi
cago last month.
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Ada Belle Wilkes
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Mrs. Ada Belle Wilkes 70 years, |
933 North 25th Street, passed a
way Saturday morning, November
19th. Mrs. Wilkes had been a
resident of Omaha forty years.
Her husband, Cecil B. Wilkes
preceded her in death having pass-!
ed away in 1947. Mrs. Wilkes
was a member of Clair Methodist
Church and was a former Sunday'
School teacher and choir member.
She is survived by a foster
daughter, Mrs. Helen Douthy, 0
maha, niece, Mrs. Margaret
Pierce, Kansas City, Kansas and
other relatives.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon from Clair
Methodist Church with the Rev.
E. T. Streeter officiating. Burial
was at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Arrangements by Thomas Mort
uary.
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Gertie F. Mimms
Mrs. Gertie F. Mimms, 60 years,
passed away Saturday, November
12th at her home, 2221 Seward
Plaza. Mrs. Mimms had been a
resident of Omaha twenty-four
years. She is survived by two
sons, Mr. Charles Mimms, Mr.
Thomas Mimms, two daughters,
Mrs. Alberta Harris, Mrs. Kath
eryn Gilbert, all of Omaha, ten
grand and six great grandchild
ren, sister, Mrs. Rosa Martin,
Ash Grove, Missouri and other re
latives.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon November
16th from Thomas Mortuary with
the Rev. Charles Favors, officiat
ing. Burial was at Mount Hope
Cemetery.
Jackie Robinson
To Discuss Pay
New York — Jackie Robinson is
said to be among the first to real
ly talk $$$ to the Dodgers.
Though there’s not to be any ser
ious contract confabs until early
next month, it seems that the case
of Jackie Robinson is top priority
and one the Brooks are anxious
to get into. Jackie has said he
would like to stay on for another
year but that he would not take
much of a cut. The Brooks are
known to feel that they want a
man who can play the 154 game
schedule.
Christine Hollowed
Mrs. Christine Hollowed, age
74 years, of 1812 No. 28st., ex
pired Sunday Nov.ember 13, 1955
at a local hospital.
She was an Omaha resident 46
years and was a charter member
of Pilgrim Baptist Church. She
served on the Deaconess Board
and Missionary Society.
She is survived by her daugh
ter, Mrs. iCorinthia Andrews of
Omaha.
Funeral services were held
Thursday November 17, 1955 at
12:00 from the Pilgrim Baptist
Church with Rev. Charles Favors
officiating. Interment was a t
Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers, Messrs. P. H. Nor
vell, J. Franklin and J. W. Porter.
Myers Brothers Funeral Ser
vice.
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Dr. Troup
To Speak
Dr. Cornelius V. Troup, presi
dent of the Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools, will
preside at the opening session of
the 22nd annual convention No
vember 28 to December 1 at the
Booker T. Washington high school
in Miami. Dr. Troup is president
of Fort Valley State College, Fort
Valley, Georgia.
Ink Spots
Still Wrangling
Over Name
New York, N. Y. — New York
State’s Supreme Court refused
this week to bar the Deek Watson
group from using the name “Ink
Spots” at the demand of the Char
lie Fuqua group also named the
Ink Spots. .
Referee Isidor Wasse.-vogel, a
special referee declared that
niether of the principals in the
case—Charlie Fuqua or Deek
Watson — had established a per
sonal proprietary right to the
name. It was stated that the
name became famous because of
the talents of the original group—
Fuqua, Watson, Billy Kenny and
the late Orville Jones.
The Referee also ruled that the
proprietary right to the name re
sides in these members and that
when Orville Jones died the ori
ginal partnership ceased to exist
vith which the name was identi
fied.
“The pecuniary value of this
trade name was derived solely as
a result of the skills of the four
original members and therefore
could not be truthfully used by
the others after the group dis
banded. Thus, when the plain
tiffs advertise their group as the
Ink Spots, they are in effcet, per
petrating a fraud upon the public
by the misrepresentation,” the
Referee stated.
Insurance
For Polio
Still Strong
Widespread public acclaim
accorded Dr.' Salk’s development
of the new polio vaccine has ap
parently not affected the pur
chase of polio insurance policies.
Information released today by
United Benefit Life Insurance
Co. of Omaha, the company that
pioneered special insurance cover
age for polio, shows that sales of
new policies in this field are
holding up well in comparison
with the trend of previous years.
The survey also revealed that the
percentage of people renewing
their polio policies is actually
slightly higher than it was last
year.
N. Murray Longworth, presi
dent of United of Omaha, com
mented, “The results of the study
indicate that the average Ameri
can still considers this type of
insurance a worthwhile invest
ment agianst fnancial disaster,
even though his chances of con
tracting polio have decreased.
“The low cost of the protection
compared to the liberal benefits
prvided will probably influence
most people to continue to use
this means of assuring themsel
ves and their families adequate
cane and treatment ... at least
until the last possiblity of this
dread disease has been erased.”
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Jlmmu Tenno In 000 B.C.
Powell Gets
Jazz Artists
Clearance
Washington, D. C. — Adam
Clayton Powell proudly announc-!
ed this week that the State De
partment had approved his pro
posal to send Dizzie Gillespie,
Count Basie, Louis Armstrong to
the Near East, Far East and
Africa as part of a $5 million in
ternational cultural exchange pro
gram.
No longer will just the long
haired artists be sent to all parts
of the world. Instead this new
rotating jazz crew will do their
share. Emphasis will be shifted
away from Europe and centered
around areas of the darker peo
ples. Plus Uncle Sam will foot
the bill.
FAM-U TO FACE MORRIS
BROWN AT HOMECOMING —
Willie Galimore, the great All
American left halfback at Flori
da A and M University, is expect
ed to lead the Rattlers to victory
when they tangle with the Mor
ris Brown Wolverines before an
overflo homecoming crowd in
Bragg Stadium in Tallahassee on
Saturday afternoon, October 15.
The St. Augustine, Florida, sen
ior, in his third year of football
action on the collegiate level, is
a two-time All-American choice.
Educators To Study
Progress Of Desegregation
Noted educators, north and south,
wil meet at the Booker T. Wash
ington high school here Novem
ber 28 to December 1 for the
22nd annual convention of the
Association of /Colleges and Se
condary Schools.
C o nvention discussions will
dwell on the theme “Critical Pro
blems in the Eucation of Negroes
in the Southern Region.”
According to Dr. L. S. Cozart,
president ‘ of Barber-Scotia Col
lege at Concord, N. C., and sec
retary-treasurer of the Associa
tion, the program this year is
built around the same theme
used last year, but with emphasis
on the subject “What is Being
Done With Reference to the Su
preme Court Decision.”
Many of the convention speak
ers, he said are people “who have
been doing things.”
Dr. Cornelius V. Troup, presi
dent of Fort Valley State College
and president of the Association,
will preside at the opening ses
sion when Dr. J. Curtis Dixon,
vice president and executive dir
ector, Southern Education Found
ation, will deliver the main ad
dress Monday night, November
28.
Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president
of Atlanta University, will pre
sent the speaker.
In a panel discussion Tuesday
morning Dr. B. R. Brazeal will
preside as four well known ed
ucators reveal “Progress in the
Implementation of the Supreme
Court Decision.”
The panel will include Dr. John
W. Davis, chairman, Department
of Teacher Information and Se
curity, NAACP Legal Defense
and Education Fund; Dr. J. L.
Wallace, president, West Virginia
State College; Reverend Father
Yancy, S. J., Spring Hill College;
Dr. Charles H. Thompson, Dean
of Graduate School, Howard Uni
versity, and Dr. Daniel E. Byrd,
assistant director of Teacher in
formation and Security, NAACP,
Legal Defense and Education
Fund.
In the Tuesday afternoon ses
sion Dr. Guy H. Wells, executive
director, Georgia Committee on
I nterracdal Cooperation, will
speak.
The primary theme of the con
vention will be intensively studied
during a symposium Wednesday
morning with Dr. Troup again
presiding and Dr. James A. Col
ston, president, Knoxville College
as moderator.
Symposium speakers scheduled
are Dr. Omer Carmichael, super
intendent of Schools, Louisville,
Ky.; Dr. Stephen J. Wright,
president, Bluefield State Col
lege; Dr. Ralph Waldo LongJ
president, Maryville College; Dr. j
Alonzo Moron, president, Hamp
ton Institute, and Dr. Guy B.
Johnson, University of t North i
Carolina.
The banquet session will be;
held Wednesday, November 20.
at 7:30 p.m. in the school cafe- j
i
teria. 4 Dr. F. D. Patterson, dir
ector of the Phelps-Stokes Fund,
will deliver the address.
Officers of the Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools
are Dr Troup, president; C. W
Seay, principal, Dunbar high
school, Lynchburg, Va., first vice
president; Dr. H. Liston, presi
dent, Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity, Charlotte, N. C., second vice
president, and Dr. Cozart, sec
retary-treasurer.
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Space Ship
Possible In
Ten Years
—
New York, November 21, 6
PM-Using power from the sun,
a practical interplanetary space
ship can be built within ten years.
Described in December Coronet,
this revolutionery new space ship
would utilize as propulsion-force
electrically charged particles of
cesium, a rather rare metal selec
ted for its ionization properties.
The cesium would be ionized in
the propulsion chamber by elec
trical charges, accelerated to
great speeds by booster electric
fields, and shot out of the rear
tubes to give the motive thrust.
How About That!
Since it's discovery,
■fire has played a
major parr in *
mans social ♦
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American Indians
C: \ invited a visitor to
W j \ 'come to -me fire - -' =,
/•■ to snare me family’s
y * food and hospitality.
Today, the*. **
qleaminq Roto Broil in
many homes spells the same
welcome and promise of
qood thinqs to come as the of
open fire of old. Broil, bare I
roast fry or qrill-TRotoBreill
extends a warm invitation
- to *come to the fire."
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The general principle is the same
as the cathode-ray tube in a TV
set.
The great problem in space
ship design has always been heat.
Rocket fuels give enormous
thrust, but their burning-temper
ature is so high that heavy, ex
pensive propulsion-tubes are nec
essary. This leads into the
vicious cyle of heavier tubes to
carry the fuel-more fuel to carry
the tubes. But ionized cesium is
far cooler by comparison, which
allows light, inexpensive materi
als to be used.
In Coronet’s illustrated article,
the diagrams show how parabolic
mirrors on the ship’s hull would
catch the sunlight, and converted
into power, the energy would be
sufficient to run not only the pro
pulsion-units, but the ship’s in
struments as well. Cesium gives
a smaller, but steadier thrust,
with a corresponding reduction
in the amount of fuel necessary.
Only a small amount would be
required to run the ship for
months, or years. Dr. Erpest
Stuhlinger, designer of the ship,
estimates that, leaving from a
space station in orbit 1,075 miles
above the Earth, a trip to Mars
would take about 18 months.
The young man had just driven
home from college at the close of
the term.
"Did you pass everything?”
asked his mother anxiously.
"Everything but two Stude
bakers and a Chevy. Darned if
they mustn’t have had airplane
motors in them!”
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Perhaps the biggest commun
ity-wide gadget building program
|in the country took place several
months ago when Theron J.
Fortenberry came home to Ned
erland, Texas. Mr. Fortenberry,
father of two young boys, was
working as a chemical engineer
when he was stricken with polio
and almost totally paralyzed. He
spent time at the National Found
ation’s Houston respirator center
where he was graduated from an
iron lung to a chest respirator.
Except for short periods during
the day he will always need this
chest respirator as a breathing
aid.
When the people of his com
munity heard that Mr. Forten
berry was at last well enough to
return home, they decided to
lend a helping hand. Friends,
neighbors and even perfect
strangers expressed an interest
and the Rev. F. K. Mullendore
decided to mobilize all this good
will to make the homecoming as
happy a one as possible.
Firstly, the house had to be
rewired so that circuits could
handle the life-giving respirator
equipment provided by the Na
tional Foundation. To provide
for possible power failure, a gen
erator was installed in the house
and another one put in the fam
ily car, so that the patient would
be able to get about.
A local man conceived the idea
of a mono-rail with a trolley for
lifting the patient. The actual
task of operating the lift is
done by a specially-trained at
tendant, provided by March of
Dimes funds.
Before long, the Fortenberry
residence was filled with dozens
of engineers, plumbers, painters,
donating their time because they
wanted to. They did their work
thoroughy, too. Someone even
designed and built a special bath
tub for the patient, long and
shallow—wide for the e^souders
and narrow for the feet. During
the final feverish days before the
homecoming, there were often 75
to 80 men with tools working a
round the house.
Finally, Theron J. Fortenberry
came home. Like most severely
afflicted polio patients, he did
not return to easy answers and
an easy future. Certainly his life
will never be the same. But
looking around his “newly con
verted” home on that day, one
fact must have been apparent to
ihim. Whatever the future holds,
j neither M r. Fortenberry—n or
any other polio patient—will ever
have to face it alone.